u-boot and IPv6

[Dhananjay Phadke]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, Chris Packham wrote:

> 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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>> 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.
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> 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

Hi Chris,

Thank you for refreshing the topic and rebasing. Are you planning to post a v4?
Besides tests, you had identified some gaps in previous series (DHCP, SLAAC, etc).
We are looking for having IPv6 in upstream, happy to fill in what will help it.

Regards,
Dhananjay