Re: [PATCH 00/23] Subject: [PATCH net-next 00/23] net/hpe: add HPE Slingshot NIC drivers

[Andrew Lunn]

> I'll see how fast I can get that done.  But "the bare minimum" is going
> to be more than you are accustomed to.  This hardware does not receive
> Ethernet packets using MAC address like normal Ethernet hardware.  It
> uses a special portal table entry that filters in the Ethernet packets.
> It has the ability to have different filters that receive different
> Ethernet packets and so sorts them before the driver ever sees them.

Can you add a single portal entry which matches everything? Or matches
a single MAC address? KISS.

You can then add on the complexity of adding MAC addresses to the
table in later patchsets.

	Andrew