From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jun 23 13:38:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cruzio.com (dsl3-63-249-86-54.cruzio.com [63.249.86.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D5C37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:38:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: (from brucem@localhost) by mail.cruzio.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5NKPLH00452 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 13:25:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bruce R. Montague" Message-Id: <200106232025.f5NKPLH00452@mail.cruzio.com> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: ADSL cards support Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org re: > Has anyone information about this card and/or Conexant attitude > regarding OpenSource projects ? Yes. They are willing to work with you under NDA but appear to consider themselves in the software business. They want to do the driver themselves and distribute binary versions, even for open source. They have a Linux driver for this card (Red Hat 6.2, I think). You can dissasemble their Linux driver with objdump and see that it appears to be doing a significant amount of signal processing (FFTs). IIRC, the card contains an ARM, and is in effect an asymettric co-processor. So it appears that their hardware is best considered a hardware-accelerator for their DSL signal processing software. They are pleasant to talk to, and make it clear as to the difficulties of making money in the commodity hardware business. - bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message