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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 10:47:44 +0100
From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To: Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
Andrey Vostrikov <andrey.vostrikov@...entembedded.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] net: arinc429: Add ARINC-429 stack
On 11/02/2015 12:16 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> The ARINC-429 is a technical standard, which describes, among others,
> a data bus used by airplanes. The standard contains much more, since
> it is based off the ISO/OSI model, but this patch implements just the
> data bus protocol.
>
> This stack is derived from the SocketCAN implementation, already present
> in the kernel and thus behaves in a very similar fashion. Thus far, we
> support sending RAW ARINC-429 datagrams, configuration of the RX and TX
> clock speed and filtering.
>
> The ARINC-429 datagram is four-byte long. The first byte is always the
> LABEL, the function of remaining three bytes can vary, so we handle it
> as an opaque PAYLOAD. The userspace tools can send these datagrams via
> a standard socket.
>
> A LABEL-based filtering can be configured on each socket separately in
> a way comparable to CAN -- user uses setsockopt() to push a list of
> label,mask tuples into the kernel and the kernel will deliver a datagram
> to the socket if (<received_label> & mask) == (label & mask), otherwise
> the datagram is not delivered.
What's difference compared to CAN besides a different MTU? The CAN stack
is already capable to handle CAN and CAN-FD frames. Would it make sense
to integrate the ARINC-429 into the existing CAN stack?
Marc
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