Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:44:34 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Compatibility of Nvidia NVNET driver license with GPL |
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Hi!
> If you are serious about this, we have tons of good ideas, and tons of > suggestions on how to avoid bad ideas :) > > OpenCores (http://www.opencores.org/) might be a good place to start, as > they already have a 10/100 ethernet MAC which is working, and has been > silicon'd: http://www.opencores.org/projects/ethmac/ Full "source" for > the MAC is available, in VHDL I think. OpenCores also has PCI VHDL and > other glue you may need. > > You'll definitely want to implement autonegotiation. It's a showstopper > without that. And if it's not gigabit ethernet, it's already outdated. > So it's a tough challenge.
AFAIK, Clock is developing ethernet-over-infrared-over-300meters-of-air. It knows what is at the other end, and probably does not need autonegotiation. It is probably not going to be gigabit, either. [Current version that works is 10mbit over ~300meters]. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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