[U-Boot-Users] u-boot on ixdp425

Kyle Harris kharris at nexus-tech.net
Wed Nov 3 22:05:21 CET 2004


On Wednesday 03 November 2004 03:09 am, you wrote:
> I have just ran the u-boot on ixdp425 dev board (thanks to all the friends
> on this list that have supported me) and now i'm trying to write a device
> driver to use the internal eth interface of ixp425 to allow the tftp boot
> of linux image.

This will most likely require using the Intel IXP Access Libraries to control 
the NPE. The Intel license is not compatible with GPL (and u-boot). This 
prohibits using the ethernet port, unless you're willing to write the  NPE 
code from scratch.

Kyle.




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