[U-Boot] list files on tftp / large kernel-image

[Frank Wunderlich]

can you give me an example how to download and display it, seems i only have tftpboot which runs kernel directly?

also found no strings-command in https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/Manual

Frank

> Gesendet: Montag, 19. November 2018 um 12:29 Uhr
> Von: "Simon Goldschmidt" <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
> An: "Frank Wunderlich" <frank-w at public-files.de>
> Cc: "U-Boot Mailing List" <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
> Betreff: Re: Re: [U-Boot] list files on tftp / large kernel-image
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 4:52 PM Frank Wunderlich
> <frank-w at public-files.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Simon,
> > thanks for fast answer
> >
> > i hope mediatek release ethernet soon (i know it's a more complex driver for r2 than the other 18 patches ), than i can drop the old uboot ;)
> >
> > for list tftp, it seems to be a protocol limitation.
> > here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76400/download-directory-structure-from-a-tftp-server the server creates a textfile...this can be a workaround
> >
> > can i download (to memory) and display it (without writing it)? i only have loaded kernel and executed it's address. I don't know how to print a "Textfile" (if it's in memory i need to know it's size and print this "data block"). maybe there is a way to load the data directly to an env-var
> 
> Have you tried the 'strings' command? Is that enough?
> 
> Simon
>