Re: [lwip-users] Help on porting LWIP

[André]

Jeff,

Thanks a lot for this steps.
By now, as I can see, I will have a lot of work to do.

If I got any sucees I will post in here, so anyone who needs something that 
looks like what I'm doing will be able to use it.

Ty everyone
[]s

André

--- Em qui, 4/11/10, Jeff Barber <address@hidden> escreveu:

> De: Jeff Barber <address@hidden>
> Assunto: Re: [lwip-users] Help on porting LWIP
> Para: "Mailing list for lwIP users" <address@hidden>
> Data: Quinta-feira, 4 de Novembro de 2010, 15:55
> I went through this learning curve
> last year and did essentially the
> same thing (for a very different board environment). 
> The basic steps
> are:
> 
> 1. Create a cc.h for your port.  This is
> straight-forward and involves
> choosing types for u8, u16, u32, etc. as well as setting
> endianness
> 
> 2. Create a sys_arch.h for your port. For a no-OS
> (NOSYS=1)
> environment, this is trivial.
> 
> 3. Create an lwipopts.h for your port. Some is
> straight-forward; some
> is tricky even though the file is not large. It requires
> you to make
> choices about several things that you probably don't know
> enough about
> to make competent choices (at least that was the case for
> me when I
> started); you may need to ask questions on the list about
> this.
> 
> 4. Create a driver for your network adapter. This is very
> device-specific and probably a pretty large task,
> especially if you're
> starting from nothing.  This needs to:
>   A. Find and initialize the adapter and get it ready
> for operation
> (probably prime it with buffers to receive into).
>   B. Pull received frames from your network adapter
> and place each
> into an LWIP pbuf, then pass those up the stack into LWIP
>   C. Provide an entry point for LWIP that can take a
> frame contained
> within a pbuf and transmit it to your network adapter.
> 
> 5. Call LWIP init function, add your driver above as a
> netif under LWIP.
> 
> 6. Create your main loop that essentially polls your
> driver, and
> periodically calls the LWIP housekeeping function.
> 
> I've attached a sanitized version of my LWIP port files in
> case it's
> helpful as a model.  Note that my system has gobs of
> memory available
> and the LWIP performance is not critical so my lwipopts.h
> settings are
> likely completely unsuitable for you.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Kieran Mansley <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 06:14 -0700, André wrote:
> >> That is why we are looking for porting directly to
> the board. But I
> >> realy don't know how I do this.
> >
> > Porting to a new board, tool chain, etc is not a good
> way to start with
> > lwIP: the learning curve is steep and the
> documentation is limited.  I
> > would start here:
> >
> > http://lwip.wikia.com/wiki/LwIP_Platform_Developers_Manual
> >
> > but I would expect you will need a lot of help to get
> going.
> >
> > Kieran
> 
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