On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 02:07:45PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > 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!
With that said, checkpatch.pl finds a number of style errors under the new U-Boot code, please address those shortly, thanks. -- Tom
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