Dear Chris, In message <50f91851.5050...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > Good question. Basically we have some out of tree code that implements a > basic IPv6 stack. I'm drip feeding the code in pieces to avoid just > dumping it on people and because the current code wouldn't meet u-boot's > standards.
Can you please go into abit more detail which exact services this implements, and how? Last time I checked (about 2 years ago) there was no officially agreed-on standard for example how network booting should be done in IPv6. There used to be a document how TFTP could handle IPv6 addresses at http://datatracker.ietf.org/idtracker/draft-evans-tftp-address-options/comment/50586/ but this apears to be gone now. The proposal was rejected by then, and the comments ("I do recommend the transition to a better transport protocol.") sounded as if the IETF would like to abandon TFTp under IPv6. I found links for DHCPv6, for example http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-00 but no read standard for a bootstrap protocol. Some documents indicated it might be based on iSCSI - but that would be quite complex; see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4173 http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/72/slides/dhc-12.pdf So what exactly are you targeting for? > Putting my IPv6 promoter hat on I hope that it won't stay dead for long :) Thanks, appreciated! > Personally I'm happy to have a long running series and periodically send > updates to the list. I have a repository on github[1] which has an ipv6 > branch collecting my changes if anyone wants to pull it down for their > own testing. If we want to apply some of the simple stuff early that's > fine by me. I see no problem with handling this as a branch (for example in the u-boot-net or u-boot-testing repositories). This should probably be decided by Joe Hershberger, though. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "It's like deja vu all over again." - Yogi Berra _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
