[U-Boot] U-Boot and FTP server

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Thu Jun 10 09:43:42 CEST 2010


Piotr Piwko wrote:
> Hello,
> 

Hi,

> Is there any possibility to download a system image from external FTP
> server?

No, there is not, at least at the moment...

> As I know, U-boot only supports the access to TFTP local
> server, but time to time it would be very useful for me if I can
> download the image through external FTP server.

There is no TCP stack in u-boot, only udp, and for this reason you can
use (or port, if it is not yet available) applications based on UDP
only, as tftp.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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