[U-Boot] tftp not working for larger rootfs image

[Fabio Estevam]

--- On Mon, 5/10/10, Navaneethan P <Navaneethan.P at Lntemsys.com> wrote:

> From: Navaneethan P <Navaneethan.P at Lntemsys.com>
> Subject: [U-Boot] tftp not working for larger rootfs image
> To: "u-boot at lists.denx.de" <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
> Date: Monday, May 10, 2010, 12:11 PM
> Hi All,
> 
> I am using Freescale's iMX51 based custom board with NAND
> flash size of 
> 128MB. 
> My root file system image size happens to be 75MB.
> I have DDR RAM of 128MB.
> My DDR Start Address is 0x9000_0000. I am trying to load my
> root file 
> system to 0x9080_0000.(8MB after the starting location).
> But when i execute the tftp command, it loads some amount
> after that it 
> hangs up.
> U-Boot> tftp 0x90800000 rootfs.jffs2
...

You could flash your rootfs.jffs2 directly to NAND and mount it from there, or if you have access to the FEC you could mount your rootfs via NFS.

Can't you use one of these approaches instead?

Regards,

Fabio Estevam