Re: STM32F4 Discovery + LwIP

Hello John,

On Tuesday 25 of March 2014 15:25:33 John Dallaway wrote:
> On 25/03/14 12:34, Jerzy Dyrda wrote:
>
> > ... I have already brought up network interface on
> >
> > STM32F4DISCOVERY + DM-STF4BB (AFAIK this is original name of base
> > board from Embest, now as I see it's called STM32F4DIS-BB).
>
> Great! Maybe we can work together to get ethernet support for this
> platform added to the eCos repository.
Of course. It's vital to add new stuff in order eCos can be still "useable".

> I think it would be preferable to define a new target such as "stm32f4discovery_bb" in ecos.db which
> includes the STM32 ethernet package. We can then make the necessary
> changes within the platform HAL source code conditional on
> CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_CORTEXM_STM32. We need to bear in mind that some users
> of the STM32F4-Discovery board may wish to wire up a different PHY
> component rather than using STM32F4DIS-BB.
OK.

Best regards,
jerzy

2014-03-25 16:25 GMT+01:00 John Dallaway <[email protected]>:
> Hi Jerzy and Valentin
>
> On 25/03/14 12:34, Jerzy Dyrda wrote:
>
>> ... I have already brought up network interface on
>>
>> STM32F4DISCOVERY + DM-STF4BB (AFAIK this is original name of base
>> board from Embest, now as I see it's called STM32F4DIS-BB).
>
> Great! Maybe we can work together to get ethernet support for this
> platform added to the eCos repository. I think it would be preferable to
> define a new target such as "stm32f4discovery_bb" in ecos.db which
> includes the STM32 ethernet package. We can then make the necessary
> changes within the platform HAL source code conditional on
> CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_CORTEXM_STM32. We need to bear in mind that some users
> of the STM32F4-Discovery board may wish to wire up a different PHY
> component rather than using STM32F4DIS-BB.
>
> John Dallaway
> eCos maintainer
> http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john

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