Hi Chris, On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Chris Packham <judge.pack...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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?
Please base it on the main u-boot.git. >> >> > 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. -Joe _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
