ipv6 support in barebox?

Alexander Aring alex.aring at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 01:28:40 EST 2013


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 06:08:03PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 16:39 Thu 05 Dec     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 01:48:35AM +0100, Alexander Aring wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I need a new challenge in my free time. :-)
> > > 
> > > So maybe I could try to implement a ipv6 stack for barebox. Are there
> > > some interest to apply a ipv6 stack into barebox?
> > > 
> > > I don't need to begin any work if there are no interest to add a ipv6
> > > support.
> > > 
> > > ... and yes I know that's maybe a really big project, but I like to get
> > > some new experience.
> > 
> > Sooner or later I think we will need ipv6 support, but now I think it's
> > up to you if you have enough interest in it to implement it ;)
> 
> I've evaluate it  and I does not want to support a custom implementation
> 
> I was thinking simply integration uIP stack so we can have ip/tcp v4/v6 stack
> 

mhh, yea I know the uIP stack from contiki os. I really don't like
contiki code. :-)

But we can try to use the uIP as basis, of course. Then we could have a
basically ipv6 support.

- Alex



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