[PATCH 4/4] net: NC-SI setup and handling

Samuel Mendoza-Jonas sam at mendozajonas.com
Wed Jun 12 15:53:46 AEST 2019


On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 02:05 +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 at 04:50, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam at mendozajonas.com> wrote:
> > Add the handling of NC-SI ethernet frames, and add a check at the start
> > of net_loop() to configure NC-SI before starting other network commands.
> > This also adds an "ncsi" command to manually start NC-SI configuration.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam at mendozajonas.com>
> 
> We need the u-boot net specialists to weigh in, but this looks okay to
> me. Please clarify the help text for the NCSI command, then add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> 
> > --- a/cmd/Kconfig
> > +++ b/cmd/Kconfig
> > @@ -1296,6 +1296,12 @@ config CMD_LINK_LOCAL
> >         help
> >           Acquire a network IP address using the link-local protocol
> > 
> > +config CMD_NCSI
> > +       bool "ncsi"
> > +       depends on PHY_NCSI
> > +       help
> > +         Configure the attached NIC via NC-SI
> 
> Can we clarify in the text if we need the 'ncsi' command to use any
> NC-SI attached NIC, or if it's more for ncsi and network debugging?

Can do - the command manually kicks off configuration of the NC-SI
topology, but isn't needed in normal use.



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