u-boot and IPv6

[Chris Packham]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:40 PM Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Sean and Dhananjay,
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> Adding U-Boot ML to the Cc
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> On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 08:45 Sean Edmond <seanedmond at microsoft.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Chris,
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>> I’m looking to add IPv6 to our version of u-boot.
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>> I found your patch series which looks like a solid initial effort:
>> [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v3 00/11] IPv6 support - Chris Packham (kernel.org)
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>> I have a few questions on the work:
>> - the patch series is now ~5 year old.  Do you have a newer patch series rebased onto a newer u-boot?
>> - do you have any plan to create a PR with these changes?
>> - has there been much interest in your changes?
>> - have you met any other individuals/companies who are trying to add IPv6 into u-boot?
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>> I look forward to hearing from you!
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>> Sean
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> IPv6 support is definitely something I want to get landed in upstream U-Boot.
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> It seemed to be fairly well received last time I posted the series. The main thing lacking was tests. That's pretty much where things were at last time I touched it. As usual life and work commitments have stopped me from progressing it further.
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> In the meantime U-Boot's testing infrastructure has improved a lot which should make adding the tests easier. I know there have been some more changes in net that will conflict but not badly.
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> At $dayjob we have merged a newer u-boot version into our fork so I do have something that is effectively a post state for the merge conflict to refer to but it's not the broken out series that I'd like to submit.
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> I think I should be able to get the series rebased against master (or the just released 2022.07 might be more useful as a base). I can probably get that up on github in the next couple of days.

I've rebased my series against v2022.07 you can get the code from the
ipv6 branch of https://github.com/cpackham/u-boot.git

I've only lightly compile tested it so I've no idea if it's still functional