problem with -mstructure-size-boundary=8 and network stack

[Gedare Bloom]

Hi Jason,

Apart from your problem, which it looks like Mick answered, I'd like
to point out that the network stack in 4.10 is quite old. You can rig
it to do what you need eventually, but its age sometimes shows.
Current development is bringing an updated network stack to RTEMS in
4.11.

Unless you have a particular reason for using a release branch it's
recommended to use the development head (i.e. 4.11 right now) for
developing new BSPs.  Part of the reason is that new BSPs are not
typically merged into release branches, so your work would eventually
have to be forward-ported if you want to release it and have it
maintained / available to others. Also the development branch tends to
include many newer features and more up-to-date bug-fixes that can
ease the pain of new development.

Anyhow good luck!
Gedare

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Mick Davis <mickd at goanna.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi
>
> You have to adjust the frames between your driver and the stack so that the
> bytes after the ethernet header are word aligned.
>
> The size of the ethernet header is better defined by ETHER_HDR_LEN, there
> could be alignment bytes included when using sizeof( struct ether_header )
> that won't exist in the real data.
>
> Check a few of the existing network drivers, there are examples for these
> issues.
>
> We've run RTEMS using both minimum alignments without problem once we got
> our network driver fixed for these.
>
>
> On 29/04/12 17:02, JIANGJason wrote:
>>
>>
>> HI all,
>> I am working on a porting of RTEMS 4.10.2(tried 4.9.4 also) to a
>> S3C2440/CS8900 based SBC, and with problem to let the network stack to work.
>>
>> (1) If  -mstructure-size-boundary=8 is used, data abort will be occur at
>> ip_input.c:400 (the problem code is listed below) when there is a IP packet
>> incoming, such as ICMP, or any other. The
>>
>> ip_input.c:400
>> if (IA_SIN(ia)->sin_addr.s_addr == ip->ip_dst.s_addr) goto ours;
>>
>> (1) If  -mstructure-size-boundary=32 is used, any IP packet out send is in
>> abnormal format. and wireshark told me that the packet it captured are all
>> "Bogus IP header length (0, must be at least 20)".
>>
>> I am not familiar with the IP stack itself, but it looks can not be easily
>> solved by just change the compiling options. Anyone had the same problem
>> before?
>> ______________________
>> Best Regards, Jason
>>
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