Hi Everyone,

We have had third-party validation on hardware tests (Thanks to Heinz
Junkes!) that ironed out a few minor issues. The network stack update
will be pushed tomorrow. *Fingers crossed* everything just works as
usual for rtems6 for anyone who isn't using libnetworking.

Gedare

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 3:32 PM Vijay Kumar Banerjee <vi...@rtems.org> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> In RTEMS 6, there will be no cpukit/libnetworking in the RTEMS repository and 
> it will be moved to its own separate repository. There are ongoing efforts in 
> this direction and it is very close to completion. What's remaining, is to 
> collect feedback from the users of the libnetworking stack.
>
> The legacy repo, in its current state, has been tested with pc-qemu and it 
> can successfully run the legacy networking tests.
>
> The following are the links to the repositories with the latest version of 
> changes:
> RTEMS: https://git.rtems.org/vijay/rtems.git/log/?h=devel-no-libnet
> Legacy Network: https://git.rtems.org/vijay/rtems-net-legacy.git/log/?h=main
>
> The following BSP family in RTEMS has been used with the old legacy 
> networking stack:
> Zynq, PC, Motorola Shared, Beatnik, mvme3100, mvme5500, gen68360, uc5282, 
> mvme 162/167
>
> If anyone is maintaining/working with one (or more) of these BSPs, please let 
> me know if you're able to test the separate legacy-net repository and if you 
> have any feedback. If you're planning to test it, please add your comments 
> here so that we know someone is going to do it and wait for your feedback. 
> The changes will not be pushed right away and we'll follow-up for your 
> feedback.
>
> What's next?
>
> The legacy networking repository will stay at git.rtems.org for any projects 
> that are still using it. It is recommended that the new projects use the 
> libbsd networking stack which is more full-featured. There is a strong 
> possibility that we will add lwip next, but no timeline has been decided for 
> it yet. We plan to provide a performance analysis of lwip and libbsd 
> networking (and maybe legacy networking as well)
>
> Thank you for your patient reading. Any suggestion is welcome and I'm more 
> than happy to work with you to get it more thoroughly tested before getting 
> it merged.
>
> Best regards,
> Vijay
>
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