FW: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] 1/5: cmd_boot

[Chris Elston]

I think we should all buy the man who bothered to RTFM a beer :-)
Maybe you'd like to supply this as a patch to the README?

Chris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Van Baren [mailto:gerald.vanbaren at smiths-aerospace.com]
> Sent: 31 March 2003 14:18
> To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] 1/5: cmd_boot
> 
> 
> There is another reasonable compromise (that Wolfgang will 
> endorse, I'm 
> sure :-).  I looked at minicom, and it uses "ascii-xfr -dsv" 
> to send an 
> ASCII file.  The "-d" says to send ^D as the end-of-file 
> marker.  The only 
> other alternative is ^Z, which is no good either.
> 
> I suggest the <proper> approach to this is to get the source 
> to ascii-xfr 
> and add a parameter to suppress sending _anything_ as a "EOF" 
> marker.  Then 
> there should not be any issue.
> 
> Hmmm, I just downloaded minicom 2.0 and looked at ascii-xfr.c 
> -- it uses 
> the flag "-e" to tell minicom to send the EOF (or not) and 
> the "-d" flag to 
> select ^D vs. ^Z, so it looks like all you need to do is upgrade your 
> minicom and change your ASCII download configuration to be 
> "ascii-xfr -esv".
> 
> Usage: ascii-xfr -s|-r [-dvn] [-l linedelay] [-c character 
> delay] filename
>         -s:  send
>         -r:  receive
>         -e:  send the End Of File character (default is not to)
>         -d:  set End Of File character to Control-D (instead 
> of Control-Z)
>         -v:  verbose (statistics on stderr output)
>         -n:  do not translate CRLF <--> LF
>         Delays are in milliseconds.
> 
> gvb
> 
> 
> At 01:32 PM 3/31/2003 -0500, elston at radstone.co.uk wrote:
> >I don't use minicom myself, all our targets have ethernet as 
> a minimum.  But
> >wouldn't including the patch with an '#ifdef MINICOM' be a reasonable
> >compromise?
> >
> >Chris.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd at denx.de]
> > > Sent: 31 March 2003 13:35
> > > To: Chris Elston
> > > Cc: U-Boot Mailing List (E-mail)
> > > Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] 1/5: cmd_boot
> > >
> > >
> > > In message
> > > <A1DD009E87CDD2119E940008C7334DA402339AFF at exchange01> you wrote:
> > > > Is there any reason we can't have an '#ifdef MINICOM'?
> > >
> > > Ar you just asking, or do you really experience any  
> minicom  related
> > > problems your own? [Why do you use it, then?]
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Wolfgang Denk
> > >
> > > --
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> > > It is impractical for  the  standard  to  attempt  to  
> constrain  the
> > > behavior  of code that does not obey the constraints of 
> the standard.
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