[U-Boot] Uboot - USB to Ethernet patch

[Simon Glass]

Yes, will do - Simon

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Remy Bohmer <linux at bohmer.net> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> 2011/2/18 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>> +UBML
>>
>> Hi Anders,
>>
>> You will need at least:
>>
>> /* Enable USB Ethernet dongles */
>> #define CONFIG_USB_HOST_ETHER
>> #define CONFIG_USB_ETHER_ASIX
>>
>> (and your platform must support USB with CONFIG_CMD_USB and CONFIG_USB_EHCI
>> for example)
>>
>> You will also want to enable the network commands:
>>
>> #define CONFIG_CMD_NET
>> #define CONFIG_NET_MULTI
>> #define CONFIG_CMD_PING
>> #define CONFIG_CMD_DHCP
>>
>> and some bootp options:
>>
>> #define CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
>> #define CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
>> #define CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
>> #define CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
>>
>> #define CONFIG_IPADDR 10.0.0.2
>> #define CONFIG_SERVERIP 10.0.0.1
>> #define CONFIG_BOOTFILE uImage
>>
>>
>> I might have missed something, but that should be enough to make progress.
>>
>> 'usb start' should identify the Ethernet dongle. Then 'bootp' should use it
>> to obtain an IP address from DHCP.
>
> Apparently it is not clear to others how it should be used.
> Can you please add a description to doc/README.usb and provide a patch for that?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Remy
>