[U-Boot] TFTP on beagle board

[Nishanth Menon]

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Mai Daftedar wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>   I was wondering how can we configure the u-boot with the TFTP
>> capability on the beagle board at runtime..
>
> For this you will need ethernet support in U-Boot. There are two (?) options
> to achieve this: Add support for USB ethernet dongle in U-Boot or use a
> Beagle expansion card with ethernet.
>
> Regarding USB ethernet dongle, there are some basic USB patches for Beagle
> U-Boot on the list. But I'm not sure how much work it is to enable them to
> support USB ethernet.
>
> For ethernet on expansion board, there is TinCanTool's Zippy board [1]. To
> access ethernet on this board from U-Boot, an U-Boot OMAP3 SPI driver is
> missing.
>
> Both options are not ready, yet, and need some development work. Any help is
> greatly appreciated!

A third option might be to support RNDIS or CDC usb gadget support and
use the usb port with beagle.. tom might be able to comment better.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dirk
>
> Btw.: I added U-Boot list, it is the better place to discuss this.
>
> [1]
> http://www.tincantools.com/product.php?productid=16147&cat=0&page=1&featured
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