[RFC v2 00/16] barebox picotcp integration (2015.07.19)

[Antony Pavlov]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:45:24 +0200
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 01:06:49PM +0300, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:10:13 +0200
> > Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Antony,
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:07:07PM +0300, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> > > > I have just published latest picotcp-enabled barebox.
> > > > Please see my 20150719.picotcp branch in my github barebox repo
> > > > (https://github.com/frantony/barebox/tree/20150719.picotcp).
> > > > 
> > > > This version is based on the latest barebox-next and picotcp v1.5.0
> > > > (there is also picotcp v1.5.1, but is has no interested
> > > > for barebox changes since v1.5.0).
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Changes since 2015.07.15 (see http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2015-June/024174.html):
> > > > 
> > > >     * net: UDP API changed to satisfy the picotcp integration needs;
> > > >     * nfs, tftp and dns subsystems have no picotcp-related stuff anymore.
> > > >     * netconsole works on top of picotcp with no additional changes.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Here are some notes:
> > > > 
> > > >   1. just now tftp/nfs file transfer on top of picotcp is slower than
> > > >      the same transfer on top of legacy network stack;
> > > > 
> > > >   2. there is no $<current network interface> anymore,
> > > >      so dhcp, tftp and ifup commands don't work on top of picotcp.
> > > >      The ifconfig command is used for network interfaces setup.
> > > > 
> > > >      N.B. There is an old patch for dhcp support on top of picotcp
> > > >         https://github.com/frantony/barebox/commit/94021b6d7bb933cd50b7ea9e2c55725b5c404205
> > > > 
> > > >   3. The picoping command is used insted of traditional ping command.
> > > 
> > > First of all I applied patches 1-4 to next.
> > 
> > Sascha!
> > 
> > Please comment patches 5-7!
> > 
> > Probably these patches will be changed in the next picotcp integration patchseries version,
> > but your comment on them could be very beneficial.
> 
> From looking at them they are ok. I haven't found the place where you
> allocate packets now, but please make sure they are aligned for dma
> accesses, i.e. use net_alloc_packet(). Otherwise this happens:
> 
> eth0: Transmit data not aligned: c0416acc!

I see only one possibility: fix pico_zalloc() macro definition in net/picotcp/include/arch/pico_barebox.h.

Could you please check it on your hardware?

-- 
Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov