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Re: RedBoot for Intel IXP425 platform
- From: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- To: "Gary D. Thomas" <gary dot thomas at mind dot be>
- Cc: eric_sy_huang at wneweb dot com dot tw,eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:48:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot for Intel IXP425 platform
- References: <48256D35.0039A93F.00@TWWNCDS1.WNEWEB.COM.TW> <1054212230.8848.8278.camel@hermes>
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:43:50AM -0600, Gary D. Thomas wrote:
> The currently released version of RedBoot does not support the
> NPE ethernet devices (the non-PCI ones). Look for Intel to
> release this in the future - I don't know the schedule.
>
> Of course, contacting Intel with your request might speed this
> up :-)
Last time I checked, the in-memory size of the NPE Ethernet
driver was unbelievably, mind-bogglingly HUGE. Larger than the
Linux Kernel. You'd end up with a 2MB boot-loader. Hopefully,
Intel will figure out how to trim the driver down to under 1MB.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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