[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] README: improve documentation of network related CONFIG_ settings

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Oct 27 02:20:48 CEST 2011


On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Add documentation for CONFIG_GATEWAYIP and CONFIG_NETMASK;
> also add information which environment variables are set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>

More docs = better

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

> ---
>  README |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 9e0ab58..60a105f 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -1432,18 +1432,37 @@ The following options need to be configured:
>                Define a default value for the IP address to use for
>                the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
>                determined through e.g. bootp.
> +               (Environment variable "ipaddr")
>
>  - Server IP address:
>                CONFIG_SERVERIP
>
>                Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
>                server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
> +               (Environment variable "serverip")
>
>                CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
>
>                Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
>                for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
>
> +- Gateway IP address:
> +               CONFIG_GATEWAYIP
> +
> +               Defines a default value for the IP address of the
> +               default router where packets to other networks are
> +               sent to.
> +               (Environment variable "gatewayip")
> +
> +- Subnet mask:
> +               CONFIG_NETMASK
> +
> +               Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
> +               routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
> +               address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
> +               forwarded through a router.
> +               (Environment variable "netmask")
> +
>  - Multicast TFTP Mode:
>                CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
>
> --
> 1.7.6.4
>
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