On Thursday 10 May 2007, Øyvind Repvik 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@innominate.com's driver which is (afaik) in mainstream by now, and Krzysztof Halasa khc@pm.waw.pl's driver, which is newer. There's a discussion about these drivers on linux-arm-kernel.
Yes, but IIRC the one from Christian never made it into mainstream. And the new one from Krzysztof seems to get quite good reactions.
Getting either of those drivers fixed up and pushed to u-boot would be great.
Yes, both would be way better than the current implementation. Hopefully one of those drivers will make in into mainline and this should be the one to pick then.
Of course, one will still need to put the microcode somewhere else due to licencing, but that's a minor matter.
Yes, just a minor issue from the code point of view, but a big issue from the licensing point of view.
Best regards, Stefan
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