Re: [ECOS] tcpip network thread...!

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 13:54 -0800, Badri Sampathkumar wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have integrated an ethernet driver for my custom board. I run the Free bsd 
> tcpip
> stack on it. I am able to succesfuly run the test programs and when the test 
> program (ping_lo_test) is running, I am able to ping the board from another 
> laptop. The board also initializes its IP thru DHCP when started up.
> 
> The issue is the n/w interface and the ethernet driver are started only when 
> an appln program like ping_lo_test is run (this calls 
> init_all_network_interfaces). I want the network stack & the ethernet driver 
> to be up & running once any image that is linked with the library is loaded 
> on the board, like a simple hello program that does not use the networking 
> stack.
> Once the BSP along with the drivers is loaded, I would like the board to 
> respond to ping. But this does'nt happen. I realized that the 
> eth_drv_start() is never called & so the h/w driver is not started too. So I 
> included a call to 'init_all_network_interfaces()' in the cyg_net_init() 
> function in the free-bsd code.
> 
> This starts up the ethernet driver but still I am not getting interrupts 
> when an Appln like Hello program that is linked with this library is loaded.
> 
> Is there any threading issues ..? I run the background network proc thread @ 
> prio 7 and fast net proc thread @ prio 6 - the default values when free-bsd 
> is included.

How do you start your "hello world" thread?

Note: eCos does not normally start up the networking unless some
thread does so explicitly.  That's just a design decision (which has
worked just fine all these years...)

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