On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 01:37, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <[email protected]> wrote: > > This introduces support for the NC-SI protocol, modelled as a phy driver > for other ethernet drivers to consume. > > NC-SI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) is a protocol to manage a > sideband connection to a proper network interface, for example a BMC > (Baseboard Management Controller) sharing the NIC of the host system. > Probing and configuration occurs by communicating with the "remote" NIC > via NC-SI control frames (Ethernet header 0x88f8). > > This implementation is roughly based on the upstream Linux > implementation[0], with a reduced feature set and an emphasis on getting > a link up as fast as possible rather than probing the full possible > topology of the bus. > The current phy model relies on the network being "up", sending NC-SI > command frames via net_send_packet() and receiving them from the > net_loop() loop (added in a following patch). > > The ncsi-pkt.h header[1] is copied from the Linux kernel for consistent > field definitions. > > [0]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/net/ncsi > [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/ncsi/ncsi-pkt.h > > Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <[email protected]> > --- > v2: > - Fix endianess issue when setting MAC address > - Make checksum offsets easier to read > - Instantiate per-phy ncsi_priv structures > - Used update ncsi-pkt.h version to include SPDX header
Thanks, the updates look good. Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
