[PATCH v11 00/29] Introduce the lwIP network stack

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Tom

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 at 21:30, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 05:22:46PM +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
> >
> > Prior to applying this series, the lwIP stack needs to be added as a
> > Git subtree with the following command:
> >
> >  $ git subtree add --squash --prefix lib/lwip/lwip \
> >    https://github.com/lwip-tcpip/lwip.git  STABLE-2_2_0_RELEASE
>
> So, assuming the outstanding questions raised on v11 are easy enough to
> resolve, I think v12 should be posted with being merged in mind (and so
> no TESTING patches, etc, since I'll "b4 shazam -SM" it. Thanks for
> working on this so hard!

FWIW I am generally happy with the whole series. Unfortunately I dont
have time to do a full detailed review, but we've fixed enough to be
confident it's 'ok' to pull.
I think we'll improve it faster over time once people start using it

Thanks
/Ilias
>
> --
> Tom