[U-Boot] Configure u-boot with netconsole

[Rudy Cazeao]

I'm having trouble getting netconsole to work u-boot after following to the letter instructions found in README.NetConsole. Here are the steps taken.

1) in the file include/configs/ads5125.h,  I  use # define CONFIG_NETCONSOLE     1
2) I then built u-boot and downloaded the image on ram memory of the target board using CodeWarrrior USB-TAP
3) I set stdin, stdout, stderr to nc and ncip to the ip address of the linux host
4) Once in u-boot, I can ping from the target to the linux host.
5) Afer running nc, the script that sets stdin, stdout, stderr to nc,  I switched over to the host side, where I run either
         ./tools/netconsole target_ipaddr
            or
           $ nc -lu 6666 &
           $ nc -u targetIipaddr 6666

      Yet, I see absolutely nothing on the console.

     However, once in a great while, I do see the  => from the boot prompt to the console on the host side.


Why doesn't it seem to be working ? This seems to be pretty straightfoward.


Also, just to be sure, I inserted the netconsole module and prior to using tools/netconsole, I ran the following command:


netconsole=6666 at 192.168.10.12/eth0,6666 at 192.168.10.10/mac_address_of_192.168.10.10<mailto:netconsole=6666 at 192.168.10.12/eth0,6666 at 192.168.10.10/mac_address_of_192.168.10.10>.



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