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SubjectRe: Compatibility of Nvidia NVNET driver license with GPL
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 And if it's not gigabit ethernet, it's already outdated.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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