Re: IP1000 gigabit nic driver

[David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>]

Francois Romieu wrote:
> David Gómez <david@pleyades.net> :
> [...]
> > Does anybody in this list know why the IP1000 driver is not
> > included in the kernel ?
>
> Afaik the driver has never been submitted for inclusion.
> At least not on netdev@vger.kernel.org (hint, hint).
>
> [...]
> > The card in question is:
> >
> > Sundance Technology Inc IC Plus IP1000
> >
> > and the driver can be found in sundance web, sources 
>
> URL please ?
>
> > included. I tried to contact the author but my email
> > bounced.
> >
> > There's no LICENSE in the source, just copyrigth
> > sentences in the .c files, so i'm not sure under
> > which license it's distributed :-?.
>
> /me goes to http://www.icplus.com.tw/driver-pp-IP1000A.html
>
> $ unzip -c IP1000A-Linux-driver-v2.09f.zip | grep MODULE_LICENSE
>     MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> It's a bit bloaty but it does not seem too bad (not mergeable "as
> is" though). Do you volunteer to test random cra^W^W carefully
> engineered code on your computer to help the rework/merging process ?

I finally got around to putting a 2nd NIC in my box that has one of this 
chips and was going to start fixing the driver up and preparing it for 
submission this weekend.  Or I might try rewriting from scratch based on 
the datasheet depending on how horrific the code looks on closer inspection.

Not got a whole lot of time to do this so no timescale for completion...

David Vrabel

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