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annotate rvinterf/libg23/README @ 44:b77005f6d315
loadtools: migration to /opt/freecalypso
| author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> | 
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| date | Wed, 26 Oct 2016 05:55:04 +0000 | 
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changeset | 1 The library built in this directory is a host side library, not for the target. | 
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changeset | 2 This library implements some functions for handling packet exchanges with GPF, | 
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changeset | 3 and it will be linked by some of the programs in the rvinterf suite. | 
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changeset | 4 | 
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changeset | 5 It needs to be noted that the RVTMUX channel belonging to GPF was named | 
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changeset | 6 RVT_L23_HEADER by TI, and as a result, I thought that these packets related | 
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changeset | 7 specifically to the higher layers of the protocol stack. But now we know that | 
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changeset | 8 hierarchically speaking, GPF sits *below* L1, not above, and GPF packets should | 
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changeset | 9 not be automatically associated with G23. This realization was made fairly | 
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changeset | 10 late, thus "g23" appears in a bunch of function names, and in the name of this | 
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changeset | 11 library. | 
