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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
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger

Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2020-03-10 07:11:23 +0800

ncsi.h 287 Bytes

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
/*
 * NC-SI PHY
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2019, IBM Corporation.
 */

#include <common.h>
#include <phy.h>

bool ncsi_active(void);
void ncsi_receive(struct ethernet_hdr *et, struct ip_udp_hdr *ip,
		  unsigned int len);
void ncsi_probe_packages(void);