[PATCH v13 00/21] Introduce the lwIP network stack

[Tom Rini]

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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