[U-Boot-Users] PATCH : Allow dhcp to get IP address from and keep other env data .
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Jul 30 16:20:44 CEST 2003
Dear Richard,
in message <FD2AC9A020DDD51194710008C7089B200BEE2231 at dlee17.itg.ti.com> you wrote:
>
> So, the patch I applied allows me to use the global dhcp server which I can
> ONLY ask address of, to give a valid address, and my environment variables
> allow resolution of my tftpserver and bootfile name. and all in one
> command.
OK, but this does not answer my question:
> If I understand you correctly, you want to use DHCP to configure the
> network interface, yet download by TFTP from a different server. Did
> you thy something like this:
>
> => setenv my_bootfile "/tftpboot/foo"
> => setenv my_tftpserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> => saveenv
>
> => setenv autoload no
> => dhcp
> => setenv serverip $(my_tftpserver)
> => tftp 200000 $(my_bootfile)
Doesn't this work for you?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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