[PATCH] networking: Increase _SYS_MBUF_LEGACY_MSIZE to 256 to match FreeBSD

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Fri May 8 05:04:52 UTC 2020


On 8/5/20 2:52 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 08/05/2020 06:49, Hesham Almatary wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 05:42, Sebastian Huber
>> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>>> On 07/05/2020 22:12, heshamelmatary at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Hesham Almatary<Hesham.Almatary at cl.cam.ac.uk>
>>>>
>>>> This commit fixes some run-time errors on 64-bit architectures 
>>>> (e.g., riscv64)
>>>> in which the tcp header size would overflow 128 bytes.
>>> I think it is a waste of time to use the old network stack with 64-bit
>>> architectures. I guess there are a lot more problems in it.
>>>
>> I agree. I am using libbsd instead, but that was a quick fix for one
>> more sample app to succeed.
> Do the network tests in the RTEMS test suite run with this change?

We would need a significant app with networking to know. I suggest we 
park this change on a ticket for 5.2. This will not happen before 5.1.

Chris


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