[U-Boot] Use of Netconsole

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Piyush Shah,

In message <ad27f3010902170532y4e6f8c68vfc0f240e14fcbc09 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I had read somewhere that if, while using netconsole, we dont set

Somewhere? Maybe in doc/README.NetConsole ?

> ncip, the messages are broadcast.
> In that case, if I send commands to my target (where u-boot is
> running) from my Linux host,
> since ncip is not set, will it accept them?

'ncip' is used to set the IP address and the port of the
*destination*. This has nothing to do with your target's IP address
which still must be specified using 'ipaddr'.

> My requirement is that, when I press a particular switch on my board,
> the console should get transferred to netconsole, but the ncip should
> not be pre-decided

No problem with that.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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