Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Chris, In message <50fbb7ea.10...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > The POSIX solution for this is to use sockaddr which encompasses both v4 > and v6 addresses (as well as other socket types). Do we want to add a > wrapper type or just work with void *? Without checking for implications for the impl

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Chris, In message you wrote: > > RFC5970[1] details network boot options for DHCPv6 (I think it's the > ratified version of the draft you linked to). Basically this allows the > server to specify a URL for the boot file which presumably could be > something like tftp://[2001:db8::1]/uImage.

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Packham
Hi Wolfgang, A a few more specific answers to your questions On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Chris Packham wrote: > On 01/18/2013 11:44 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Dear Chris, > > > > Last time I checked (about 2 years ago) there was no officially > > agreed-on standard for example how networ

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Packham
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:44:39 +1300, Chris Packham > wrote: > > > TFTP over IPv6 as well as PING6. Our use case is just static address > > configuration but using link-local addresses should be doable. I was > > thinking it wo

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-20 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Hi Chris, On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:44:39 +1300, Chris Packham wrote: > TFTP over IPv6 as well as PING6. Our use case is just static address > configuration but using link-local addresses should be doable. I was > thinking it wouldn't be to hard to implement something to generate a > global IPv6 ad

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Packham
On 01/19/2013 07:41 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> Dear Chris, >> >> In message <50f91851.5050...@gmail.com> you wrote: >>> Personally I'm happy to have a long running series and periodically send >>> updates to the list. I have a repository o

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Packham
On 01/18/2013 11:44 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Chris, > > In message <50f91851.5050...@gmail.com> you wrote: >> >> Good question. Basically we have some out of tree code that implements a >> basic IPv6 stack. I'm drip feeding the code in pieces to avoid just >> dumping it on people and becaus

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Packham
On 01/18/2013 11:23 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Chris, > > In message <1358472932-32083-1-git-send-email-judge.pack...@gmail.com> you > wrote: >> >> This series so far covers the introduction of a IP6addr_t and >> printing/parsing of addresses. I have a patch for testing these basic >> things

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-18 Thread Joe Hershberger
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Chris, > > In message <50f91851.5050...@gmail.com> you wrote: >> Personally I'm happy to have a long running series and periodically send >> updates to the list. I have a repository on github[1] which has an ipv6 >> branch collecting my

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Chris, In message <50f91851.5050...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > Good question. Basically we have some out of tree code that implements a > basic IPv6 stack. I'm drip feeding the code in pieces to avoid just > dumping it on people and because the current code wouldn't meet u-boot's > standards.

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Albert ARIBAUD, In message <20130118092041.0c827374@lilith> you wrote: > > > This series so far covers the introduction of a IP6addr_t and > > printing/parsing of addresses. > > As a general comment, I heartily welcome IPv6 support (even though I Me too! :-) > but I wonder how this fits

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Chris, In message <1358472932-32083-1-git-send-email-judge.pack...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > This series so far covers the introduction of a IP6addr_t and > printing/parsing of addresses. I have a patch for testing these basic > things which I haven't included in this series yet. Is there a

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-18 Thread Sergey Lapin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:39:29PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote: > Putting my IPv6 promoter hat on I hope that it won't stay dead for long :) >From my side, IPv6 is long awaited feature by me and various people, so it won't stay dead. ___ U-Boot mailing l

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Packham
On 01/18/2013 09:20 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:35:27 +1300, Chris Packham > wrote: > >> From: Chris Packham >> >> This series so far covers the introduction of a IP6addr_t and >> printing/parsing of addresses. > > As a general comment, I heartily welcome I

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-18 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Hi Chris, On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:35:27 +1300, Chris Packham wrote: > From: Chris Packham > > This series so far covers the introduction of a IP6addr_t and > printing/parsing of addresses. As a general comment, I heartily welcome IPv6 support (even though I suspect there is quite a lot to be d

[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Initial IPv6 support

2013-01-17 Thread Chris Packham
From: Chris Packham This series so far covers the introduction of a IP6addr_t and printing/parsing of addresses. I have a patch for testing these basic things which I haven't included in this series yet. Is there a unittest facility for u-boot I should be using? A few open questions 1) Presumab