Hi Joe,
On 19 February 2015 at 16:44, Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Simon,
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
Hi Joe,
On 16 February 2015 at 22:16, Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Simon,
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
Hi Joe,
On 10 February 2015 at 18:30, Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@ni.com wrote:
Implement a bridge between u-boot's network stack and Linux's raw packet API allowing the sandbox to send and receive packets using the host machine's network interface.
This raw Ethernet API requires elevated privileges. You can either run as root, or you can add the capability needed like so:
sudo /sbin/setcap "CAP_NET_RAW+ep" u-boot
Can you add a note about thsi in README.sandbox? This seems like a major new feature. It was talked about a few years ago when sandbox was first created.
OK. Can you maybe point me to that conversation so I can understand what was anticipated potentially covering more of what was expected.
All I could find was this:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/108687
I dug around and found this too:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/118685
It seems it was more complicated to setup, but may have other benefits (such as being more likely to be able to change MAC address settings eventually).
Ah yes that is it.
I think your method is simpler and useful, and therefore generally better as a starting point. The TAP idea if we have it should be a separate feature. I really like that to, but it requires setup as you say.
Regards, Simon