Hi Sven, Thank you for your past suggestions. We are now looking into getting BATMAN working on a Zynq-7000 Xilinx FPGA. This FPGA hosts dual-arm A9 cores. We have successfully loaded up Ubuntu on this platform and it is running Linux version 4.19.0-xilinx-v2019.2 (oe-user@oe-host) (gcc version 8.2.0 (GCC))
The above line is from cat /proc/version. Can you point me to a BATMAN installation for this OS and platform? I could not find any resources online for this. The way suggested by BATMAN home page does not work for some reason. Thank you for your help. Regards, Charles _____________ CreoNex Systems 2625 Townsgate Road, Suite 330 Westlake Village, CA 91320 www.creonexsystems.com (805) 558-9687 This message (including any attachments) is for the named addressee(s)'s use only. It may contain sensitive, confidential, private proprietary or legally privileged information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. Any use, disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message and/or any attachments is strictly prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2022 5:51 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question about batman for ARM On Monday, 20 June 2022 12:20:19 CEST [email protected] wrote: > Does BATMAN ADV interfaces with the radio via the network driver or > does BATMAN include the network driver? As said before, it is interfacing with the generic ethernet netdev layer of the kernel. For example in: * https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/caa1eb0cf7bf8ebfe43bba06b89025 2a865efa91:/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c#l727 * https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/caa1eb0cf7bf8ebfe43bba06b89025 2a865efa91:/net/batman-adv/send.c#l108 * https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/caa1eb0cf7bf8ebfe43bba06b89025 2a865efa91:/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c#l185 There are a lot of other places when it uses the abstraction interfaces of the kernels for ethernet related communication. For B.A.T.M.A.N. V, it is also trying to get throughput information via various generic kernel functionality: * https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/caa1eb0cf7bf8ebfe43bba06b89025 2a865efa91:/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c#l67 There is also one detection for wifi interfaces to decide whether broadcast messages should be repeated or not: * https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/caa1eb0cf7bf8ebfe43bba06b89025 2a865efa91:/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c#l877 > Can you provide some guidance on where the network driver or interface > to network driver is located within BATMAN? It is not talking directly to the driver. It is always using abstraction layers. Either the normal network core, ethernet or cfg80211 abstraction interfaces. But these don't abstract the requirement for ethernet compatibility away - the underlying device must provide this either directly or via a wrapper. Just perform a `git grep -e ETH_ -e eth_ -e ethhdr` to see that it is build around the concept of ethernet packets. Also things like originators and the complete translation table only works with ethernet addresses. Kind regards, Sven
