From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; t=1793583359; b=ufhEAtfmcl5pHXOoi+h3cB1Uu1xLVM+6QKZ+e/orFZlMCHtjQCdi0JFTgchVoeIBdBgW hsjyWd2bY/ba8hQLA0kI+CCsyGPK0l5Wi6GmhQUcNWaO6p9VTBeBezylNjwBg5G/+O0ZZ Op28u9tEe7T5OOfsIr5XUxm0j2CMD8y03CM9PjFLhFMzarruX1NeHryG5NBgparwWnQMz pVhNy75EDvB8Vkno4kogWTqJVYiCwFfU8DGL90bT+CO5lvErWYgsxYORrIHMPoUH16HTY UopDBHoM0CGe6UHwnl6m/va6XnJFng5LUHBrarCO0rR9MqIgF0KS0HPrSC4SeQm0IuQ== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1793583359; h=DMARC-Filter:DKIM-Signature:Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject: Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition: In-Reply-To; bh=dlU73RR5PLs3OxNGnWFwp4gEKCDYj3V/cQaaU2gVSyg=; b=X6fdVUsYQZ2JfEOp74swKkiMv2tbCXgyKUx6UuoCj6R7Bs1h0OaAGA4KaPOllGd9MS8P vAaT3DrADHIStADEiAMQHpQjAR1EA2HvEWPlrEsySYd3iFRgpnwR7mpom/rvsWthaZeqr GfyYwmwFDvOw1rz0870+0UytNdk8B9SXFzvAEMGXPmalsYdbet6Up4G5uz3bU4swrw/i2 JSmB10n3nmRVkI/q0XrdJ8Bi0fF5Zo1ZcthoGehejEArDFISm4101rnuXLwGXxmj/A/2e 9hZkKx7G8r71V78qbv4K5yeHaTIJxacKhQmsXlOBSTVe9brNoJWF7S08Q9dWwG0z0Gg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=20171124 header.b=ujjqRWDL; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=156.67.10.101 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61DC9606A324; Mon, 2 Nov 2026 01:35:59 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 smtp.subspace.kernel.org 61DC9606A324 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key, unprotected) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=20171124 header.b=ujjqRWDL DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=dlU73RR5PLs3OxNGnWFwp4gEKCDYj3V/cQaaU2gVSyg=; b=ujjqRWDLSM35ZXJrHv4cRciEhX ih9dwrbYjr+X+My4f5gNPokhio5aabBHAsqb8roJ4PwbG1Z1xLY/WUvAozOBpWxoOvxdbCGrmjONl SO9TL3QOPq8+zkMThYRdSkkOs8IpQU3b3cnKxOEcBqyBto4oeiHcq8MSXF8ahZ+f3TjM=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1xNgxe-00DidV-5x; Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:35:46 +0100 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 02:35:46 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn To: Doug Ledford Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Slingshot Open Source Team , Nathan Chancellor , Nicolas Schier , Richard Cochran , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Sumit Semwal , Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= , Guenter Roeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Sandeep Bhoot , Iraimani P , Mamila Santosh Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Subject: [PATCH net-next 00/23] net/hpe: add HPE Slingshot NIC drivers Message-ID: <2f831f13-58ff-40ca-a76f-3aca647012b6@lunn.ch> References: <20261030-cxi-netdev-submission-v1-0-8c2c391cc283@hpe.com> <20261030151121.1f232b50@kernel.org> <7d4583c2-e8dc-4ffb-bc45-e2121f824b14@lunn.ch> X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: > 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