Lpc2000

Joel Winarske wrote:
>>I believe the uIP project is the one that is actively being
>>developed. I had planned to look at LwIP first, as I think
>>thats what was running on the Olimex demo ported by Crossworks.
> 
> 
> The Crossworks port is of uIP, as is the FreeRTOS port.  Paul mentions a
> 0.9.1 version of uIP on his page:
> http://www.crossstudio.co.uk/msp430/uip.htm
> I sent Adam an email requesting it, perhaps I will get a response.

Yep, you're right ... I should have just looked at the Olimex page :)

http://www.olimex.com/dev/lpc-e2129.html

>>I also have an Altera NIOS II development kit that appears
>>to have a uCOS-II+LwIP demo.
> 
> The lwIP implementation in Altera's NIOS II environment is 0.7.2 I believe.
> Perhaps they updated to 1.1 in the recent 5.0 release?

Yeah they did.

> My take is that uIP is best suited for a quiet collision domain, or perhaps
> with hardware assist.  Altera had published a very interesting white paper
> on offloading portions of the IP stack to hardware in the form of DMA
> peripherals.
> 
> Working IAR build of uIP/SLIP:
> 12 312 bytes of CODE  memory 
>  4 700 bytes of DATA  memory (+ 30 absolute ) 
>  6 464 bytes of CONST memory
> 
> This might be interesting to compare against a lwIP/SLIP implementation.

Sounds like a plan. Once I get the Linux drivers stuff finished
(I've got to look into the PCI side of network drivers), I'll
go back to the LPC and NIOS ends of things.

Cheers
Dave