[U-Boot] [U-Boot-Users] TFTP server support in U-boot

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Dec 17 08:38:25 CET 2008


Dear "santosh pattar",

In message <19f3dfd10812162008q27069e30uec230196911ba3f3 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much for the suggestion. Actually i could able to get
> the TFTP server up in u-boot. This Server wont run in the background
> all the time. The senario is like this, Board comes up and checks for
> validation of the image on the flash. If the validation fails it
> switches to the server mode that is its in the listening mode. If any
> read/write (RRQ/WRQ) requests come to the board, it services them and
> as you suggested if complete/done command(file) comes it switches from
> server mode and continues with the regular operation.

And why exactly cannot this be done using normal TFTP client mode that
everybody else uses?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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