On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:39 PM Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <s...@mendozajonas.com> 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 <s...@mendozajonas.com>
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com> _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
