On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:56:22 +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 > > [...]
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
