[U-Boot] DNS Resolution for serverip-environment-variable?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear adam.cartwright at bossmail.de,

In message <E1LWXyn-0001jO-Sk at www11.emo.freenet-rz.de> you wrote:
>
> is it possible to set the hostname instead of the ipaddress for the
> serverip-environment-variable. So that I can load the os-image from
> an tftp-server with dynamic ipaddress.

Yes, of course this is possible. You will have to implement a DNS
resolver in U-Boot to support such a feature.

But note that this will probably drop you just one level lower: You
will then have to store the IP address of the name server(s) ...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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