[PATCH 00/21] EFI driver to support multiple network interfaces

[Adriano Córdova]

El mar, 4 feb 2025 a las 6:37, Ilias Apalodimas (<
ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>) escribió:

> Hi Adriano,
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 19:09, Adriano Cordova <adrianox at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This series introduces an EFI driver to manage EFI net objects. The main
> > functionalities implemented here are the following:
> >         - Support multiple efi_net_obj
> >         - Manage efi_net_obj with EFI driver
> >         - Support calling [dis]connect_controller with a handle having
> >           a snp protocol installed.
> >
> > The patches can be found at
> > https://github.com/0n41rd4/u-boot/tree/efi-net-driver
> > on top of upstream/next.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Adriano
>
> This is all useful and I'd like to move this forward. But the amount
> of patches and lines in each patch is a bit too much to review
> properly.
> Can you try to split them a bit? I had a look in the first few patches
> and sent some comments.
> Perhaps you can send the PXE ones first even with the limitations of a
> single device? And then send the multiple device support? Or the other
> way around?
>
> Thanks
> /Ilias
> >
> > Adriano Cordova (21):
> >   legacy-net: wget: fix wget_info handling after new tcp legacy stack
> >   efi_loader: expose symbols to be used by the EFI network stack
> >   efi_loader: efi_setup: Add efi_start_obj_list() to efi_setup.c
> >   efi_loader: efi_net: Add efi_net_do_start() to efi_net.c
> >   efi_loader: efi_device_path: Let network device paths receive the net
> >     udevice as an argument
> >   efi_loader: efi_net: Add support for multiple efi_net_obj
> >   efi_driver: efi_net: Add EFI network device driver
> >   efi_loader: efi_net: Reuse efi_net_obj's
> >   efi_loader: efi_net: Let efi_net_obj store pointers to
> >     efi_simple_network, efi_simple_network_mode, and the efi handle
> >   efi_net: efi_loader: Add efi_netobj_alloc to allocate an efi_net_obj
> >   efi_loader: efi_net: Manage EFI net objects with
> >     efi_[dis]connect_controller
> >   eth_uclass: Add eth_create_device to create a net udevice
> >   efi_driver: efi_net: UCLASS_ETH "efi_netdev" U-Boot driver
> >   efi_driver: efi_uclass: Add unbind method to efi_driver_ops
> >   efi_driver: efi_net: Add efi_net_unbind_drv method to efi_net driver
> >   efi_loader: efi_net: Add functions to [un]register http and
> >     ip4_config2 protocols, and add pxe protocol on demand
> >   efi_loader: efi_net: add snp_owner field to efi_net_obj struct
> >   efi_selftest: Add selftest for counting EFI netdevices
> >   py/tests: test_efi_selftest: Add test for counting EFI netdevices
> >   py/tests: test_efi_selftest: Add test for removing EFI netdevices
> >   efi_selftest: Add test for efi_netdev driver
> >
> >  include/efi_driver.h                       |    4 +
> >  include/efi_loader.h                       |   80 +-
> >  include/net-common.h                       |    3 +
> >  lib/efi_driver/Makefile                    |    1 +
> >  lib/efi_driver/efi_net_device.c            |  289 ++++++
> >  lib/efi_driver/efi_uclass.c                |    6 +-
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c               |    3 +-
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c              |   23 +-
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c           |   23 +-
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_http.c                  |   36 +-
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_ipconfig.c              |   41 +-
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_net.c                   | 1063 ++++++++++++++++----
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_setup.c                 |   27 +-
> >  lib/efi_selftest/Makefile                  |    2 +-
> >  lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_net_device.c |   65 ++
> >  lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_net_driver.c |  310 ++++++
> >  lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_snp.c        |    1 -
> >  net/eth-uclass.c                           |   32 +
> >  net/wget.c                                 |   18 +-
> >  test/py/tests/test_efi_selftest.py         |   45 +
> >  20 files changed, 1810 insertions(+), 262 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 lib/efi_driver/efi_net_device.c
> >  create mode 100644 lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_net_device.c
> >  create mode 100644 lib/efi_selftest/efi_selftest_net_driver.c
> >
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> >
>

Hi Ilias,

Yes, what about sending first the patches about multiple device support and
then the patches about EFI and U-Boot drivers?
Do you prefer two series, or one is fine?