From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Doug Ledford <doug.ledford@hpe.com>
Cc: "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Slingshot Open Source Team"
<slingshot-os-team@groups.ext.hpe.com>,
"Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>,
"Nicolas Schier" <nsc@kernel.org>,
"Richard Cochran" <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Sumit Semwal" <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"Guenter Roeck" <linux@roeck-us.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
"Sandeep Bhoot" <sandeep.bhoot@hpe.com>,
"Iraimani P" <iraimani.pavadai@hpe.com>,
"Mamila Santosh" <santosh-kumar.mamila@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Subject: [PATCH net-next 00/23] net/hpe: add HPE Slingshot NIC drivers
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 02:35:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f831f13-58ff-40ca-a76f-3aca647012b6@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bde936b5-1b3f-4987-a3e5-36ec5c4710e6@hpe.com>
> I'll see how fast I can get that done. But "the bare minimum" is going
> to be more than you are accustomed to. This hardware does not receive
> Ethernet packets using MAC address like normal Ethernet hardware. It
> uses a special portal table entry that filters in the Ethernet packets.
> It has the ability to have different filters that receive different
> Ethernet packets and so sorts them before the driver ever sees them.
Can you add a single portal entry which matches everything? Or matches
a single MAC address? KISS.
You can then add on the complexity of adding MAC addresses to the
table in later patchsets.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-02 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-30 20:58 Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:58 ` [PATCH 01/23] net: hpe: ss1: add the Cassini headers Doug Ledford
2026-10-31 13:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-10-31 19:34 ` Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:58 ` [PATCH 02/23] net: hpe: sbl: add the Slingshot Base Link headers Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:58 ` [PATCH 03/23] net: hpe: sbl: add the core instance and configuration layer Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 04/23] net: hpe: sbl: add the SerDes layer Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 05/23] net: hpe: sbl: add the PML link layer Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 06/23] net: hpe: sbl: add link state management Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 07/23] net: hpe: sbl: add the SBM serial bus layer Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 08/23] net: hpe: sbl: add media, FEC and counter support Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 09/23] net: hpe: sl: add the Slingshot Link headers Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 10/23] net: hpe: sl: add the module entry points Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 11/23] net: hpe: sl: add the core link state machines Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 12/23] net: hpe: sl: add the control layer Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 13/23] net: hpe: sl: add media and cable handling Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 14/23] net: hpe: sl: add the sysfs interface Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 15/23] net: hpe: sl: add the NIC binding and logging helpers Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 16/23] net: hpe: ss1: add the Cassini core device layer Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 17/23] net: hpe: ss1: add the datapath and memory translation layers Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 18/23] net: hpe: ss1: add the link layer glue Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 19/23] net: hpe: ss1: add SR-IOV support Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 20/23] net: hpe: ss1: add the CXI core interfaces Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 21/23] net: hpe: ss1: add resource groups, QoS and services Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 22/23] net: hpe: ss1: add the Ethernet personality Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 20:59 ` [PATCH 23/23] net: hpe: wire up the Slingshot NIC drivers Doug Ledford
2026-10-30 22:11 ` [PATCH 00/23] Subject: [PATCH net-next 00/23] net/hpe: add HPE " Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-31 20:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-11-02 1:02 ` Doug Ledford
2026-11-02 1:35 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2026-11-02 3:45 ` Doug Ledford
2026-11-02 3:01 ` Guenter Roeck
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