Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:53:21 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Compatibility of Nvidia NVNET driver license with GPL |
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:44:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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 And if it's not gigabit ethernet, it's already outdated.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].
FWIW autonegotiation is strictly related to "the wire", so wireless would be a totally different space.
Jeff
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