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question about IPC

1330hayacool7102
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Dear Friends,
For some reason, we want to use the socket type AF_BUS instead of AF_UNIX for IPC.
Is it supported now? If not, could we patch something for using?

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    TI__Mastermind 18260 points

    What product are you asking about?

    BIOS does not have socket support, nor does TI's IPC package.  The BIOS NDK (Network Development Kit) does have support for sockets, but not for AF_UNIX.

    Regards,

    - Rob

     

  • 0 in reply to Robert Tivy
    Guru 10655 points

    Dear Rob,
      Thanks for your reply.

    This topic is arm-none-linux-gcc library related. When using IPC system, AF_UNIX was applied for unicast, and AF_BUS is for multicast.
    My question is about SW architecture. Did you mean the post is in wrong place? The post was moved here by someone.

  • 0 in reply to 1330hayacool7102
    TI__Mastermind 18260 points

    MyFather said:
    Did you mean the post is in wrong place? The post was moved here by someone.

    Yes, it should go to the Linux forum.  The person who moved it was probably just going by the IPC keyword, and the original forum from which this post was moved was not right either (I believe it was the TI816X Processors forum).  TI supplies an IPC product that goes on top of SYS/BIOS, and TI also supplies a product called SysLink that contains an IPC implementation for Linux apps on the ARM to talk to SYS/BIOS programs on a coprocessor (e.g., a DSP), but neither of these deal with sockets.

    Your question doesn't relate to either of these, it seems more related to generic Linux.  I'm not sure what is the IPC system you're asking about on Linux.

    Regards,

    - Rob