On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:00:20PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> > - the NPE can also be used as DMA engine and for crypto operations.
quoted text > > Both are not network related.
> > Additionally, the NPE is not only ixp4xx related, but is
> > also used in IXP23xx CPUs, so it could be placed in
> > arch/arm/common or arch/arm/xscale ?
> >
> > - The MAC is used on IXP23xx, too. So the drivers for
> > both CPU familys only differ in the way they exchange
> > network packets between the NPE and the kernel.
>
> Hmm... perhaps someone have a spare device with such IXP23xx
> and wants to make it a donation for science? :-)
I have a couple of ixp23xx boards at home, but I'm not sure whether I
can give them away. I can give you remote access to them, though.
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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers , Lennert Buytenhek , (Tue May 8, 7:48 am)