On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 04:11:47PM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote: > This patchset adds the components of the Media Oriented Systems Transport > (MOST) driver to the kernel's driver staging area and adapts the build > system accordingly. By including this driver Linux applications will be > able to access a MOST network: The Automotive Information Backbone and the > de-facto standard for high-bandwidth automotive multimedia networking. > > MOST defines the protocol, hardware and software layers necessary to allow > for the efficient and low-cost transport of control, real-time and packet > data using a single medium (physical layer). Media currently in use are > fiber optics, unshielded twisted pair cables (UTP) and coax cables. MOST > also supports various speed grades up to 150 Mbps. > For more information on MOST, visit the MOST Cooperation website: > www.mostcooperation.com. > > Cars continue to evolve into sophisticated consumer electronics platforms, > increasing the demand for reliable and simple solutions to support audio, > video and data communications. MOST can be used to connect multiple > consumer devices via optical or electrical physical layers directly to one > another or in a network configuration. As a synchronous network, MOST > provides excellent Quality of Service and seamless connectivity for > audio/video streaming. Therefore, the driver perfectly fits to the mission > of Automotive Grade Linux to create open source software solutions for > automotive applications. > > The driver consists basically of three layers. The hardware layer, the > core layer and the application layer. The core layer consists of the core > module only. This module handles the communication flow through all three > layers, the configuration of the driver, the configuration interface > representation in sysfs, and the buffer management. > For each of the other two layers a selection of modules is provided. These > modules can arbitrarily be combined to meet the needs of the desired > system architecture. A module of the hardware layer is referred to as an > HDM (hardware dependent module). Each module of this layer handles exactly > one of the peripheral interfaces of a network interface controller (e.g. > USB, MediaLB, I2C). A module of the application layer is referred to as an > AIM (application interfacing module). The modules of this layer give access > to MOST via one the following ways: character devices, ALSA, Networking or > V4L2. > > To physically access MOST, an Intelligent Network Interface Controller > (INIC) is needed. For more information on available controllers visit: > www.microchip.com All looks good, I've now queued these up. thanks for doing the work to clean up and split these into patches that can be applied properly. Now the real work begins :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
