[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] net: Move the VCI and client arch values to Kconfig

Leif Lindholm leif.lindholm at linaro.org
Fri May 6 18:07:28 CEST 2016


On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 10:54:23AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 07:10:52PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> > We have a bunch of boards that define their vendor class identifier and
> > client archs in the board files or in the distro config. Move everything
> > to the generic Kconfig options.
> 
> This part is good and fine, thanks.  Can you please do a follow-up to
> convert CONFIG_SPL_NET_VCI_STRING as well?
> 
> > We're missing the distinction between i386 and x86_64, as I couldn't find
> > any config variable that would tell us the difference. Is that really important
> > to people? I guess not, so I left it out.
> 
> This part however is is from the RFC (and ARM isn't in it, so 0x100 is
> special magic).  See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4578 section 2.1.  I
> suppose reading that now, the right value to use here for your use case
> actually makes what we're doing now a little harder as "Intel x86PC" is
> 0x0, and "EFI IA32" is 0x6.  Or we could, if I'm reading the RFC right,
> just drop this part of the code entirely.

As far as I can tell (and referenced from EDK2 codebase), the
canonical list is
http://www.ietf.org/assignments/dhcpv6-parameters/dhcpv6-parameters.xml#processor-architecture

/
    Leif


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