On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Chris, > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Chris Packham <judge.pack...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here at $dayjob we make embedded network devices (routers & switches). > > Because we have an interest in getting people to adopt IPv6 we've added > code > > to our local u-boot repository to add basic IPv6 support on our boards. > It's > > not a fully conformant IPv6 host implementation but it is enough to be > able > > to statically configure an IPv6 address and download images from a v6 > > capable TFTP server. > > > > We're trying to be better FLOSS citizens so I'm proposing to my > colleagues > > that we put some effort in getting this pushed upstream. The first step > of > > which would be to see if anyone wants the feature and is the /net > maintainer > > willing to take on this code (not that we intend to dump and run). > > I'm certainly interested in entertaining any network stack patches, > and IPv6 support is certainly useful. > OK. I'll try and get started as soon as I get a chance. Might need to get some clearance from $overlords to spend work time on it (or $wife to spend spare time on it). Should I base the patches on git:// git.denx.de/u-boot-net.git or the main u-boot.git or something else? > > Our existing code is a little too tightly coupled to our out of tree > board > > support so I don't have a preliminary patchset to provide. If there is > > interest I'll work on porting it from our tree to a vanilla u-boot tree > (we > > have a couple of supported eval boards around). > > Please make sure you have a look at > http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches if you haven't already. That > will make it much easier to accept your patches. You may also want to > use the patman and buildman tools to help you manage your > patch-series. > Yep will do. Part of the reason I haven't sent what we've got currently is that it would be a big amorphous dump of code and I don't want to waste peoples time when I should be able to break it up into a series of logical commits. > > Thanks in advance, > -Joe >
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