On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Chris Packham <judge.pack...@gmail.com> wrote: > IPv6 neighbor discovery uses various multicast addresses to send the > request and receive the response. For neighbor discovery to work > properly in U-boot the Ethernet device needs to support joining/leaving > various L2 multicast groups or it needs to support multicast/promiscuous > mode. For the sake of simplicity the latter approach has been taken. The > e1000 hardware has slightly finer grained control in that it is possible > to enable support for multicast-promiscuous mode separately from unicast > so the extra traffic received is less. > > Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.pack...@gmail.com> > > --- > Drivers that support multicast reception have it enabled/disabled with > CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP. It wouldn't be too hard to create a separate > CONFIG_MCAST that is selected by enabling CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP or > CONFIG_NET6.
I agree that a new token CONFIG_MCAST should be created. > Changes in v2: None > > drivers/net/e1000.c | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000.c b/drivers/net/e1000.c > index 2ba03ed..d19a9de 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/e1000.c > +++ b/drivers/net/e1000.c > @@ -5090,6 +5090,11 @@ e1000_setup_rctl(struct e1000_hw *hw) > rctl &= ~(E1000_RCTL_SZ_4096); > rctl |= E1000_RCTL_SZ_2048; > rctl &= ~(E1000_RCTL_BSEX | E1000_RCTL_LPE); > + > +#ifdef CONFIG_NET6 > + rctl |= E1000_RCTL_MPE; > +#endif > + > E1000_WRITE_REG(hw, RCTL, rctl); > } > > -- > 2.5.3 > > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
