Re: CTU CAN FD IP core SocketCAN driver - success with mainine Linux kernel and mainline QEMU builds

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 27/5/22 21:19, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I want to report successful build and test of the CTU CAN FD driver
> from actual Linux kernel mainline GIT on actual QEMU build from
> mainline git. Test on HW from net-next has been repeatedly
> run by Matej Vasilevski during his timestamping patches work.
>
> Thanks to all who helped, namely Ondrej Ille for his investment
> in the project and rewrite of registers generator to provide
> headers files acceptable for mainline, Marc Kleine-Budde
> for review, integration and cleanup and together with
> Pavel Machek to provide valuable feeback what is not acceptable.

Nice team work, congratulation! :)

> I hope that we will be ready with with timestamping patches
> cleanup for 5.20 merge windows as well as with support
> for HDL sources parameterizable number of Tx buffres.
>
> In the long term, I consider to use mechanism of software
> virtual FIFO to implement multiqueue Tx support which
> is in the fact needed in all serious CAN applications
> to prevent bus level priority inversion.
>
> We plan to visit and present on the Embedded World
> in Nuremberg, so I would be happy to meet you there.
> I hope that Carsten Emde and OSADL will pass over
> information where we are available.
>
> Program for Tuesday afternoon is given already
> Talk QtRvSim – RISC-V Simulator for Computer Architectures
> Classes, June 21, 2022 Session 10.3 – System-on-Chip (SoC)
> Design RISC-V Development (16:00 - 16:30) at Embedded World
> Conference. Our toy there https://github.com/cvut/qtrvsim
>
> Best wishes,
>
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