On 10/4/24 20:30, Tom Rini wrote: > 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! Sure. Thanks for reviewing and testing! -- Jerome
