[U-Boot] Establishing connection via Ethernet

[Piyush Shah]

Hi Ben

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Ben Warren <biggerbadderben at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Piyush,
>
> Piyush Shah wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Is it feasible to send u-boot commands via Ethernet instead of UART?
>> I know that there is no such support right now. But can it be added?
>> Moreover how am I supposed to transmit UDP or TCP packets from u-boot?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Look into netconsole for control over Ethernet.  I haven't used it
> personally, but it's supported in U-boot.
This is what I wanted
Thanks a lot
>
> What kind of UDP or TCP packets do you want to send?  Many of the common
> UDP-based protocols have some support (NFS, TFTP and some others), but keep
> in mind that U-boot is not a multitasking environment and so there is no
> concept of 'servers'.  Apart from netconsole, all network communications
> must start from the target.
>
> regards,
> Ben
>



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-PIYUSH