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Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 22:00:20 +0200 From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> To: Christian Hohnstaedt <chohnstaedt@...ominate.com> Cc: Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@....ac.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers Christian Hohnstaedt <chohnstaedt@...ominate.com> 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 netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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