[U-Boot] http client?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jul 22 17:01:26 CEST 2009


Dear Robin Getz,

In message <200907220826.58333.rgetz at blackfin.uclinux.org> you wrote:
>
> > Well, you are aware that such a thing would need a TCP/IP stack, which
> > is far beyond what we currently have in U-Boot support?
> 
> Yes - I'm aware. My thoughts were to do something like what IBM and other 
> suggestions were - use lwip.

Well, yes. Use it. And have fun debugging funny network behaviour in
real life networks.


I must admit that I'm not really interested in  this  -  I  will  not
oppose  any  such patches as long as they are cleanly done and can be
disabled without negative impact on exitsting code and  systems,  but
whenever  I  will  need TCP/IP, I will boot an OS instead. Much, much
less effort - much faster, and much mor reliable.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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