Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755156AbXEGUA2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:00:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755080AbXEGUAY (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:00:24 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:54576 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966369AbXEGUAW (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 16:00:22 -0400 To: Christian Hohnstaedt Cc: Michael-Luke Jones , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, Russell King , Jeff Garzik , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers References: <5BB7E1AB-5CE1-43C8-8CE3-E0DE0236BD09@cam.ac.uk> <20070507175213.GU23611@tweety> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 22:00:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070507175213.GU23611@tweety> (Christian Hohnstaedt's message of "Mon, 7 May 2007 19:52:13 +0200") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 21 Christian Hohnstaedt writes: > - the NPE can also be used as DMA engine and for crypto operations. > 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? :-) -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/