[U-Boot-Users] what exactly is netconsole

[Travis Sawyer]

Andy:

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 14:46, Andrew Wozniak wrote:

> A recent post mentions that U-Boot now has netconsole features, 
> What type of functionality does this 
> provide? 
> 
netconsole pipes stdin or stdout (or both) to a network device

> Does this imply a "one-way" output connection only or does it allow a 
> remote connection into the target - similar to telnet.
> 
Pretty much...

> Our project requires remote network access to U-Boot because the 
> deployed the system will not include a serial port.

The other end is netcat (see u-boot/doc/README.NetConsole for the 
appropriate script)

http://netcat.sourceforge.net/


It sounds like this is what you need for your project.

-travis