[U-Boot] NetConsole and network API

[Raúl Sánchez Siles]

  Hi:

On Viernes, 22 de Octubre de 2010 22:14:45 Joe Hershberger escribió:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:23 AM, RaúlSánchez Siles
> 
> <rsanchezs at infoglobal.es> wrote:
> >  Hello Joe:
> > 
> >  I've also bumped into this issue and I'm not familiar enough with U-Boot
> > to properly think of a solution fixing the issue. However, I share the
> > analisys Stefano did. In my case I use a davinci DM355 custom board,
> > very similar to the EVM.
> > 
> > You offered to send a patch some time ago, is there any chance we could
> > see it? I offer to test it. Alternatively, I'm interested in hearing
> > your approach to the solution so maybe I can get a slot to make up a
> > patch from it.
> 
> Hi Raul,
> 
> I apologize for not getting to this.  As usual, deadline pressure
> pushes this kind of thing out.  I don't have the time to create the
> patch for the git head and submit it officially at this time, however
> I can give you the patch against u-boot-2009.11.  I'll get to
> officially submitting it at some point, but for now this is the best I
> can do for you.
> 
> Apply this patch to u-boot 2009.11 and then #define
> CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_PERSIST_ETH in your board config header.
> 
> I use this on an MPC8313 with the TSEC Ethernet driver and it greatly
> increases the speed and reliability of the NetConsole.  All other
> protocols such as TFTP still work the same as before.
> 
> Hopefully this helps.
> 
> Best regards,
> -Joe

  Great! Thank you. I'll address this as soon as I have some time, hopefully 
among this 2 weeks.

  Regards

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