Jason Thorpe wrote:

> The Intel Access Library for IXP425 requires a license from Intel, and 
> thus cannot be contributed to the public NetBSD sources.

But perhaps it is possible to manage it as a vendor contribution : the 
developper has to obtain an Intel license (fortunateny I've got one ;-)  
), but some patches and makefiles could be available in the NetBSD 
community, like snapgear-3.0.0-ixp400-v1.3-support.tar.gz for Linux that 
you can find there: 
http://ixp4xx-osdg.sourceforge.net/howtos/snapgear-3.0.0-IXP400-AccessLibrary-v1.3-Integration-HOWTO.html

Is there any chance to find this as open source, or do I have to write 
it from scratch ?

Regards,
Franck.