Re: Compatibility of Nvidia NVNET driver license with GPL

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

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  And if it's not gigabit ethernet, it's already outdated.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
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