thunderbolt-net
Modern computers have one or more Thunderbolt ports. One of the features of the Thunderbolt protocol is the use of a high-speed TCP/IP network over it. It would be nice to have such option in Alpine out of the box. But currently there is no thunderbolt-net
module in Alpine 3.14.
# modprobe thunderbolt-net
modprobe: module thunderbolt-net not found in modules.dep
This module may be enabled with CONFIG_USB4_NET
(CONFIG_THUNDERBOLT_NET
in previous versions of the kernel).
Symbol: USB4_NET [=m]
Type : tristate
Defined at drivers/net/Kconfig:568
Prompt: Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables
Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && USB4 [=m] && INET [=y]
Location:
-> Device Drivers
(5) -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
In fact, it is already available on the edge kernel.
File | Package | Branch | Repository | Architecture |
---|---|---|---|---|
/lib/modules/5.15.1-0-edge/kernel/drivers/net/thunderbolt-net.ko | linux-edge | edge | community | x86_64 |
/lib/modules/5.15.1-0-edge/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/intel/wmi/intel-wmi-thunderbolt.ko | linux-edge | edge | community | x86_64 |
/lib/modules/5.15.1-0-edge/kernel/drivers/thunderbolt/thunderbolt.ko | linux-edge | edge | community | x86_64 |
/lib/modules/5.15.1-3-lts/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/intel/wmi/intel-wmi-thunderbolt.ko.gz | linux-lts | edge | main | x86_64 |
I plan to test it on Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake platforms on the weekend. I will write the results here.
It would be nice to get this module in a non-edge kernel before the 3.15 release. Thank you for attention.