From: Peter Soetens <peter@domain.hid>
To: xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC 0/1] Class driver for raw Ethernet packets
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:34:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109231534.53470.peter@domain.hid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1316774468.git.richard.cochran@domain.hid>
On Friday 23 September 2011 13:02:19 Richard Cochran wrote:
> This patch adds a class driver for raw Ethernet drivers under
> Xenomai. The goal is to support industrial protocols such as EtherCAT
> and IEC 61850, where the "stack" is a user space program needing
> direct access at the packet level. The class driver offers interfaces
> for registration, buffer management, and packet sending/receiving.
>
> Although this patch is a kind of first draft, still I have it working
> on the Freescale P2020 with a real world application, with very good
> results. I can post a patch series for the gianfar driver in the ipipe
> tree, if anyone is interested.
>
> The user space interface is a character device and not a socket, simply
> because my applications will probably never need fancy socket
> options. The class driver could surely be made to offer a socket
> instead, but I think the character is sufficient.
>
> The class driver is clearly in the wrong directory within the source
> tree, but I put it there just to get started. It really does not fit
> to any of the other drivers, so it probably would need its own place
> under ksrc/drivers.
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments,
How does this relate to rtnet, i.e. why didn't you write an rtnet driver ?
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 11:02 [Xenomai-core] [RFC 0/1] Class driver for raw Ethernet packets Richard Cochran
2011-09-23 11:02 ` [Xenomai-core] [RFC 1/1] Add a class " Richard Cochran
2011-09-23 11:27 ` [Xenomai-core] [RFC 0/1] Class " Richard Cochran
2011-09-23 13:34 ` Peter Soetens [this message]
2011-09-23 13:50 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-26 11:41 ` Richard Cochran
2011-09-27 8:26 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-27 12:01 ` Richard Cochran
2011-09-27 12:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-27 15:10 ` Richard Cochran
2011-09-27 15:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-27 16:05 ` Richard Cochran
2011-09-27 16:26 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-27 16:30 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-27 17:04 ` Richard Cochran
2011-09-27 17:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-27 17:00 ` Richard Cochran
2011-09-27 17:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-28 8:16 ` Richard Cochran
2011-09-28 8:29 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-27 18:02 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
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