[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] support for Intel IXP

From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] support for Intel IXP
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:56:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030716065625.50E4CC6D82@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:02:36 EDT." <E19caqI-0004cr-00@mclean.mail.mindspring.net>

In message <E19caqI-0004cr-00@mclean.mail.mindspring.net> you wrote:
> Another thing to note about the IXP support is that there is NO network 
> support due to license restrictions. Intel has chosen to release their CSR 
> libraries under a proprietary license. The CSR libraries provide the Access 
> Layer, which is a software interface for accessing the hardware ports. I'd 
> had heard rumors that Intel was going to release this code under GPL, but 
> that was months ago. So, for now IXP only supports the serial interface.

Maybe you can write a short summary and submit it as doc/README.IXP ?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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