GigE NIC (Was: Who is RobertF?)

[Till Straumann]

Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Till Straumann wrote:
>   
>> Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>     
> [...]
>   
>>> Till.. we missed getting your ported drivers into 4.9.  Can we
>>> take a stab at merging them now?
>>> It will likely be easier for someone to at least update to the
>>> latest from there.
>>>       
>> The show-stopper was (and AFAIK still is) that the pc386 interrupt 
>> dispatcher still doesn't
>> support shared interrupts. Someone would have to upgrade the pc386
>> code first (can't be that hard; maybe ppc and 386 can be merged into
>> a single more generic piece implementing most of <rtems/irq.h>
>> and <rtems/irq-extensions.h>
>>     
> [...]
>
> It should be quite easy to use the generic interrupt framework in
>
> c/src/lib/libbsp/shared/include/irq-config.h
> c/src/lib/libbsp/shared/include/irq-generic.h
> c/src/lib/libbsp/shared/src/irq-generic.c
> c/src/lib/libbsp/shared/src/irq-legacy.c
>
>   
Sure - but someone has to do it ;-)
> Example BSPs that use this framework:
>
> c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/lpc24xx
> c/src/lib/libbsp/powerpc/gen83xx
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