From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kevin D. Kissell" Subject: Re: Patch to add M3Pnet Driver Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:40:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4857BEDB.8080603@mips.com> References: <4835F799.6070302@mips.com> <20080523023623.GA17651@linux-mips.org> <4836F40C.804@mips.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle To: jeff@garzik.org Return-path: Received: from mx.mips.com ([63.167.95.198]:59419 "EHLO dns0.mips.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757434AbYFQNkJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:40:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4836F40C.804@mips.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jeff, Ralf and I never heard back from you on this one. Have you had a chance to think about it yet? Regards, Kevin K. Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > Guysm > > Yet another network driver is probably not what the world needs most, > but I had to write one for MIPS Linux this month that was a little > different from any of the others. It's a driver that impersonates > an ethernet interface whilst actually passing packets in memory between > different processors running different OS images in a shared memory > environment, something that actually happens in embedded systems. > I call it M3P (pronounced "mep"), for MIPS Memory Message Passing, > but if I didn't think it could be adapted to non-MIPS based and indeed > heterogeneous systems, I wouldn't trouble you with it. I note that > the "mipsnet" driver, which is limited in its function to running > on a MIPS simulator, made it in, so I figured I'd at least ask if > it's something that could be absorbed into the network driver mass, > the better for other folks to improve on it - there are a lot of > enhancements I'd like to make, some of which are described in the > comments, but it's not clear that I'll have time to make them any > time soon. A familiar refrain, I suppose. Anyway, the patch is > attached. See also Ralf's ack below. > > Regards, > > Kevin K. > > Ralf Baechle wrote: >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:45:45AM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: >>> From: "Kevin D. Kissell" >>> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 00:45:45 +0200 >>> To: Linux MIPS Org >>> Subject: Patch to add M3Pnet Driver >>> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; >>> boundary="------------050707080700070300010401" >>> >>> As per previous messages, here's 2 of 2 >> >> This is largely a network driver patch with minor arch bits thrown in so >> this one will have to go via jeff@garzik.org and netdev@vger.kernel.org. >> The MIPS bits are looking good though so feel free to add my >> >> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle >> >> line for them. >> >> Ralf >