[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/4] net: NC-SI setup and handling

[Samuel Mendoza-Jonas]

On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 02:35 +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 01:38, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam at mendozajonas.com> wrote:
> > Add the handling of NC-SI ethernet frames, and add a check at the start
> > of net_loop() to configure NC-SI before starting other network commands.
> > This also adds an "ncsi" command to manually start NC-SI configuration.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam at mendozajonas.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Update ncsi command help text
> > 
> >  cmd/Kconfig   |  8 ++++++++
> >  cmd/net.c     | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/net.h |  2 +-
> >  net/net.c     | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/cmd/Kconfig b/cmd/Kconfig
> > index 0badcb3fe0..9851b04972 100644
> > --- a/cmd/Kconfig
> > +++ b/cmd/Kconfig
> > @@ -1332,6 +1332,14 @@ config CMD_LINK_LOCAL
> >         help
> >           Acquire a network IP address using the link-local protocol
> > 
> > +config CMD_NCSI
> > +       bool "ncsi"
> > +       depends on PHY_NCSI
> > +       help
> > +         Manually configure the attached NIC via NC-SI.
> > +         Normally this happens automatically before other network
> > +         operations.
> 
> Do we need to make it even clearer that "this command not required to use NCSI"?
> 
> I'm thinking of future me wondering if we should put this in openbmc
> builds or not. It would be good to have your advice on this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joel

Either way; it's definitely not required but might be useful for sanity
checking things in BMC bringup.