[edk2-devel] [PATCH v11 0/1] ShellPkg/DynamicCommand: add HttpDynamicCommand

[Vladimir Olovyannikov via groups.io]

Hi Laszlo,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:33 PM
> To: Vladimir Olovyannikov <vladimir.olovyannikov at broadcom.com>;
> devel at edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Zhichao Gao <zhichao.gao at intel.com>; Maciej Rabeda
> <maciej.rabeda at linux.intel.com>; Jiaxin Wu <jiaxin.wu at intel.com>; Siyuan
> Fu <siyuan.fu at intel.com>; Ray Ni <ray.ni at intel.com>; Liming Gao
> <liming.gao at intel.com>; Nd <nd at arm.com>; Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud
> <Samer.El-Haj-Mahmoud at arm.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/1] ShellPkg/DynamicCommand: add
> HttpDynamicCommand
>
> On 09/09/20 20:49, Vladimir Olovyannikov wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Olovyannikov
> > <vladimir.olovyannikov at broadcom.com>
> > Cc: Zhichao Gao <zhichao.gao at intel.com>
> > Cc: Maciej Rabeda <maciej.rabeda at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Jiaxin Wu <jiaxin.wu at intel.com>
> > Cc: Siyuan Fu <siyuan.fu at intel.com>
> > Cc: Ray Ni <ray.ni at intel.com>
> > Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao at intel.com>
> > Cc: Nd <nd at arm.com>
> > Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud <Samer.El-Haj-Mahmoud at arm.com>
> >
> > This patchset introduces an http client utilizing EDK2 HTTP protocol,
> > to allow fast image downloading from http/https servers.
> > HTTP download speed is usually faster than tftp.
> > The client is based on the same approach as tftp dynamic command, and
> > uses the same UEFI Shell command line parameters. This makes it easy
> > integrating http into existing UEFI Shell scripts.
> > Note that to enable HTTP download, feature Pcd
> > gEfiNetworkPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdAllowHttpConnections must be set to
> TRUE.
> >
> > BZ: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2860
> >
> > PATCH v11 changes:
> > Address comments from Laszlo:
> >   - use TimeBaseLib.h header to get rid of duplicated constants;
> >   - explicitly return UINT32 in EfiTimeToEpoch().
>
> to be clear, I explicitly *disagree* with returning UINT32 from
> EfiTimeToEpoch().
>
> I'm not "demanding" (or even suggesting) that you update the
> EfiTimeToEpoch() implementation in this patch to return UINTN, but I'd
> like
> to be very clear that, IMO, for EfiTimeToEpoch() to suffer from a year
> 2106
> problem on 64-bit systems too, is bad design. So please don't list the
> UINT32
> return type as my suggestion -- that's the exact opposite of what I'd
> actually
> suggest.
Sorry, I must have misunderstood. Do you want me to resubmit the patch?
I am open to ideas.

Thank you,
Vladimir
>
> Zhichao: are you ready to merge this patch? If so, please let me know;
> I'll test
> it then.
>
> Thanks
> Laszlo
>
> >
> >
> > Vladimir Olovyannikov (1):
> >   ShellPkg/DynamicCommand: add HttpDynamicCommand
> >
> >  ShellPkg/ShellPkg.dec                         |    1 +
> >  ShellPkg/ShellPkg.dsc                         |    5 +
> >  .../HttpDynamicCommand/HttpApp.inf            |   58 +
> >  .../HttpDynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand.inf |   63 +
> >  .../DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/Http.h  |   91 +
> >  ShellPkg/Include/Guid/ShellLibHiiGuid.h       |    5 +
> >  .../DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/Http.c  | 1823
> +++++++++++++++++
> >  .../HttpDynamicCommand/HttpApp.c              |   61 +
> >  .../HttpDynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand.c   |  137 ++
> >  .../HttpDynamicCommand/Http.uni               |  117 ++
> >  10 files changed, 2361 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644
> > ShellPkg/DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/HttpApp.inf
> >  create mode 100644
> >
> ShellPkg/DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand
> .inf
> >  create mode 100644
> ShellPkg/DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/Http.h
> >  create mode 100644
> ShellPkg/DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/Http.c
> >  create mode 100644
> > ShellPkg/DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/HttpApp.c
> >  create mode 100644
> >
> ShellPkg/DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand
> .c
> >  create mode 100644
> > ShellPkg/DynamicCommand/HttpDynamicCommand/Http.uni
> >

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