Christian Hohnstaedt <[email protected]> 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
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