Re: [PATCH v11 00/29] Introduce the lwIP network stack

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

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On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 05:22:46PM +0200, Jerome Forissier wrote:

> This is a rework of a patch series by Maxim Uvarov: "net/lwip: add lwip
> library for the network stack" [1]. The goal is to introduce the lwIP TCP/IP
> stack [2] [3] as an alternative to the current implementation in net/,
> selectable with Kconfig, and ultimately keep only lwIP if possible. Some
> reasons for doing so are:
> - Make the support of HTTPS in the wget command easier. Javier T. and
> Raymond M. (CC'd) have some additional lwIP and Mbed TLS patches to do
> so. With that it becomes possible to fetch and launch a distro installer
> such as Debian etc. using a secure, authenticated connection directly
> from the U-Boot shell. Several use cases:
>   * Authentication: prevent MITM attack (third party replacing the
> binary with a different one)
>   * Confidentiality: prevent third parties from grabbing a copy of the
> image as it is being downloaded
>   * Allow connection to servers that do not support plain HTTP anymore
> (this is becoming more and more common on the Internet these days)
> - Possibly benefit from additional features implemented in lwIP
> - Less code to maintain in U-Boot
> 
> Prior to applying this series, the lwIP stack needs to be added as a
> Git subtree with the following command:
> 
>  $ git subtree add --squash --prefix lib/lwip/lwip \
>    https://github.com/lwip-tcpip/lwip.git  STABLE-2_2_0_RELEASE 

So, assuming the outstanding questions raised on v11 are easy enough to
resolve, I think v12 should be posted with being merged in mind (and so
no TESTING patches, etc, since I'll "b4 shazam -SM" it. Thanks for
working on this so hard!

-- 
Tom

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