IXP_NPE Driver Functional on LE & BE in SlugOS HEAD

Hey there,

Over the past week I've been working with the developer of the GPL  
licensed, Intel Access Library free IXP NPE driver in order to iron  
out bugs in Little-endian mode and add some extra features. The  
result of this work is a driver which, in my experience seems stable  
enough to be considered on early beta release, though it has only  
been tested on the IXDP425 (BE) and NSLU2 (BE & LE) so far. The image  
should/may function on the NAS-100D including onboard ethernet.

To see the patchset used to produce our 2.6.18 kernel go to:
http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/kernel/browser/trunk/patches/2.6.18

This kernel can be built from the SVN repository or by using  
OpenEmbedded to build either OpenSlug or DebianSlug HEAD. The  
OpenSlug and DebianSlug images built from HEAD currently boot  
correctly and an SSH console is accessible.

One important feature missing currently in our kernel is correct  
timekeeping, as we are waiting for ARM clocksource support which will  
hopefully be merged by 2.6.19-rc1 and which we will then backport.

Devs: There are already bugs to fix, please check these lists.
SlugOS: http://tinyurl.com/mt3cl
Kernel: http://tinyurl.com/lnqju

Now, it's time for me to sign off. I'm going back to University and  
won't have access to my build machines. I'll be back in December, in  
the mean time feel free to email me if you need information about the  
changes I've made.

Good luck,

Michael-Luke



 
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