[U-Boot] Question about Netconsole

[Ben Warren]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de> wrote:

> Hi Jared,
>
> > I just wanted to let you know that I got Netconsole to work on my board.
> > It turned out that the NetLoop routine was halting and initialing the
> > TSEC driver over and over as part of the packet reception process.  This
> > was causing the interface to go up and down over and over and the
> > packets were getting missed.
>
> Ok, so I was actually head on :)
>
> > My temporary workaround has been to update the tsec init and halt
> > routines so that they don't do anything if stdin is configured to "nc"
> > (I figure that the interface is already in use so it doesn't need to
> > be updated).  This seems to solve my problem for the time being and
> > lets me continue on.
>
> Why not post your changes and let others share your improvement?  Even
> if it is of hackish nature, I'm sure that when you CC Ben Warren
> (network custodian) he will also share his opinion on how to do it "the
> right way".

Yes, please do.

regards,
Ben