Hi Peter, On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 06:10, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 13:03, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 at 16:32, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 05:31:30PM +0300, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: > > > > > > > Legacy TCP stack is bad. Here are some of the known issues: > > > > * tcp packet from other connection can break a current one > > > > * tcp send sequence always starts from zero > > > > * bad tcp options processing > > > > * strange assumptions on packet size for selective acknowledge > > > > * tcp interface assumes one of the two scenarios: > > > > - data downloading from remote host to a board > > > > - request-response exchange with a small packets > > > > so it's not possible to upload large amount of data from the > > > > board to remote host. > > > > * wget test generate bad tcp stream, test should fail but it passes > > > > instead > > > > > > > > This series of patches fixes all of the above issues. > > > > > > I know Peter asked on the last one, but I want to ask as well. With lwIP > > > merged, why do we want to add features to the old stack? I can see > > > fixing issues, but not adding new functionality as well. Thanks. > > > > > > > Let's apply this. It has tests and the old stack is still used by a > > lot of boards. At present lwip is only used on one. There is more work > > to do on the new stack, including finishing off the sandbox > > implementation. > > I agree with applying the fixes pieces, I do not agree with apply the > HTTP server pieces. This series should actually be split into 3
But what is your objection? I would much rather just apply it ASAP. It has already gone through 12 versions, during which lwip has been prepared and applied. The HTTP server is a useful feature and we should be able to use it to test networking in U-Boot in a more self-contained and performant manner. Regards, SImon