[PATCH v9 00/23] Introduce the lwIP network stack

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 01:45:10PM +0200, Jerome Forissier wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/23/24 23:18, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 03:48:04PM +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
> > 
> > As an odd thing, the series leads to ethernut5 failing to build,
> > strangely over the RTC driver it uses, for me.
> 
> Weird.
> 
> > I did have to manually
> > merge the CMD_WGET related patch, 
> 
> Weird.
> 
> > but I don't think that was what went
> > wrong here.
> 
> Could you try to build from GitHub perhaps?
> Branch https://github.com/jforissier/u-boot/tree/to-upstream/v9 builds
> fine here:
> 
> $ ./tools/buildman/buildman ethernut5
> Building current source for 1 boards (1 thread, 24 jobs per thread)
>        arm:  w+   ethernut5
> +===================== WARNING ======================
> +This board does not use CONFIG_DM_I2C (Driver Model
> +for I2C drivers). Please update the board to use
> +CONFIG_DM_I2C before the v2022.04 release. Failure to
> +update by the deadline may result in board removal.
> +See doc/develop/driver-model/migration.rst for more info.
> +====================================================
>     0    1    0 /1              ethernut5

I think you weren't on latest next branch when you posted v9, and that's
at least the merge conflict. I see the platform builds on your branch as
well, but fails still, on mine.

-- 
Tom
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