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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri May 6 18:57:39 CEST 2016


On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 05:07:28PM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> 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

That's even better, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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