[U-Boot] http client?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "jeffery palmer",

In message <BLU127-DAV686E79B5BF3A896935555A91B0 at phx.gbl> you wrote:
> 
> We are looking for an http client now as well. Our major issue revolves
> around the download times for tftp.

HTTP will probably not be much faster.

Did you try using NFS?

> Our units automically update themselves inside of uboot giving us the
> most control over our firmware. The issue is that it takes 20 minutes
> via a DSL line in Africa to update our units. An http test showed that
> the same firmware downloads in 30 seconds. We have also added things
> like the blksize parameter to the uboot tftp client to get it down to 20
> minutes, our original download times were ~50 minutes.

Hm... but 20 minutes versus 30 seconds cannot be explained by TFTP
versus HTTP alone. There must be other effects impacting your network
traffic. Did you run any deeper analysis?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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