network support: libbsdport or rtems-libbsd for e1000 network chips on i386?

[Joel Sherrill]

On Nov 6, 2016 4:28 PM, "Chris Johns" <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On 04/11/2016 08:03, Ricardo Derbes wrote:
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>>
>> Following your advice, I made a checkout of rtems-libbsd and built it
>> (using rtems 4.11 rc4, by the way)
>> As I think none of the source files in rtems-network-demos is intended
>> to be used with libbsd,
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>
> The network demos needs some work to support both stacks. This will have
to happen after 4.11.0 and it may be included in a 4.11.1 dot release.
>
>
>> I resorted to build ChrisJ dbserver
>> (https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/people/chrisj/dbserver/), as is, and
>> I succeeded.
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>
> Great.
>
>
>> My problem is that I cannot run it under qemu, it hangs (or at least
>> does nothing) after issuing rtems-bsd-initialize()
>> I started qemu with: qemu-system-i386 -kernel examples/net-app.exe
>> -vga cirrus -append "--console=/dev/com1" -net nic,vlan=1,model=e1000
>> -net user,vlan=1 -append "--console=/dev/com1"  -serial stdio
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>
> I have not tried a recent i386 build with qemu, I have been using real
hardware.

Did 4.11 branch before we were testing and fixing on i386?

I know I have tested real HW with two Intel NICs but it would have been
from the master after 4.11 branched.

>
>> Running ticker.exe the same way works ok.
>> Is it even possible tu run dbserver under qemu?
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>
> On the i386, I am not sure. On the ARM you cannot do this. The qemu
support for the debug hardware seems limited.
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>
>> Or, where can I find a network demo which uses rtems-libbsd, as a start
point?
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> We are lacking these and I have not had time to create some.
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>
> Chris
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