SMC91111 performance and copyright

[Chris Johns]

On 16/03/2014 8:24 am, Peter Dufault wrote:
>
> On Mar 15, 2014, at 15:55 , Joel Sherrill <Joel.Sherrill at oarcorp.com
> <mailto:Joel.Sherrill at oarcorp.com>> wrote:
>
>> I don't know your RAM or requirements situation but the new TCP/IP
>> stack may also be an option.
>>
>> But if staying with the old stack, updating the driver may be an
>> easier option. There is a collection of newer drivers for the current
>> stack with porting glue in rtems-libbsd.
>>
>> >
>>
> My RAM and ROM requirements are very generous: 8MB each.  I didn't
> realize that the drivers in rtems-libbsd supported the current network
> stack.  I will look at that.
>
> If they work in the current network stack why aren't they in the current
> tree?  Testing issues?
>

It is a different structure and life cycle to the main RTEMS releases. 
Also the focus moved to a newer stack and it has not moved from there.

Chris