Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967382AbXEHLsU (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 07:48:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967353AbXEHLsQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 07:48:16 -0400 Received: from alephnull.demon.nl ([83.160.184.112]:49968 "EHLO xi.wantstofly.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967340AbXEHLsP (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 07:48:15 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=1148133259; d=wantstofly.org; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type: content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=ULx6FuhkKyV4BgvEEIWwkZRGZS/Nwo1ynmLGz5W2+xxrYM9dUHQoM4v2bt3Sk D8nRQQ69gtfT/HHXyKA4jJtdg== Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 13:48:11 +0200 From: Lennert Buytenhek To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: Christian Hohnstaedt , 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 Message-ID: <20070508114811.GB32146@xi.wantstofly.org> References: <5BB7E1AB-5CE1-43C8-8CE3-E0DE0236BD09@cam.ac.uk> <20070507175213.GU23611@tweety> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1014 Lines: 22 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. > > 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. - 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/