[U-Boot-Users] IXP425 ethernet & NPE microcode

[Øyvind Repvik]

On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:16:50 Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Thursday 10 May 2007, Jonathan Pratt wrote:

> And furthermore, it would be very desireable to drop the current NPE U-Boot 
> ethernet driver implementation based on the original Intel code with the 
> complex and ugly Intel access library completely, and re-implement the driver 
> based on the new Linux IXP4xx NPE ethernet drivers. There are currently 2 
> completely new drivers without the Intel access library which will result in 
> lower memory footprint and much less and cleaner code.

That would be Christian Hohnstaedt <chohnstaedt at innominate.com>'s driver
which is (afaik) in mainstream by now, and  
Krzysztof Halasa <khc at pm.waw.pl>'s driver, which is newer. There's a discussion
about these drivers on linux-arm-kernel. 

Getting either of those drivers fixed up and pushed to u-boot would be great. Of
course, one will still need to put the microcode somewhere else due to licencing,
but that's a minor matter.

Øyvind Repvik
nslu2-linux developer