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

Simon Goldschmidt simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 11:29:21 UTC 2018


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


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