Hi Ferenc, On 03.02.25 13:31, Ferenc Fejes wrote: > On Mon, 2025-02-03 at 13:08 +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: >> On 30.01.25 14:55, Ferenc Fejes wrote: >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any hint! >> >> If you are willing to implement it, there's RFC 916 (RATP), which >> addresses the use case of establishing a reliable communication link over >> serial. We use it in barebox to mount remote file systems via serial. > > Thank you for the pointer, good to know barebox have such a feature! I assume > the license permit what you suggest here, right?
barebox is licensed under the GPL-2.0 and IMO U-Boot would do well to port over some of the generic niceties, which is why I am pointing them out to prospective porters. :) >> If you were to implement the same support in U-Boot, you could reuse >> the host-side bits without change (and take inspiration from the barebox >> implementation of the target-side bits). >> >> https://github.com/barebox/barebox/blob/master/fs/ratpfs.c >> https://www.barebox.org/doc/latest/user/remote-control.html > > I'll look into this. This looks like an interesting challenge or even better, > add SoC bits to barebox (probably that is more work). That would be cool. ;) I got a Mediatek Chromebook that I intend to port barebox to (mt8186), which possibly shares IPs with your router. But that's getting off-topic. > BTW I have a MT7986 based router and I wanted to install Debian on it. In the > process I encountered even though the ETH PHY supported by upstream, and > linux- > firmware have the required bits as well, none of them included in the > installer. > So I facing the same issue on Linux side as well :-) Meh, but surely, you can reach out to the Debian developers to get the necessary drivers included. > On FOSDEM '25 I noticed > usb9pfs contribution from you, I really like that idea as well! Thanks! There are some rough edges, but I believe this can be very useful once the necessary parts land in diod, barebox et al. Cheers, Ahmad > >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Cheers, >> Ahmad >> >> > > Best, > Ferenc > -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
