phy: Add support for the NC-SI protocol
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 <sam@mendozajonas.com> Reviewed-by:
Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Acked-by:
Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
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- drivers/net/phy/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/net/phy/Kconfig
- drivers/net/phy/Makefile 1 addition, 0 deletionsdrivers/net/phy/Makefile
- drivers/net/phy/ncsi.c 897 additions, 0 deletionsdrivers/net/phy/ncsi.c
- include/net.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsinclude/net.h
- include/net/ncsi-pkt.h 442 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/net/ncsi-pkt.h
- include/net/ncsi.h 14 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/net/ncsi.h
- include/phy.h 2 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/phy.h
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