[PATCH] net: lwip: add TFTPSERVERIP Kconfig option
Quentin Schulz
quentin.schulz at cherry.de
Wed Jan 14 16:01:46 CET 2026
Hi Jonas,
On 1/6/26 9:34 PM, Jonas Karlman wrote:
> With the legacy networking stack, it is possible to use USE_SERVERIP,
> SERVERIP and BOOTP_PREFER_SERVERIP Kconfg options to force use of a
> specific TFTP server ip.
>
> Using the lwIP networking stack use of the 'tftpserverip' environment
> variable provide the closest equivalent functionality.
>
It does read serverip environment variable if it's set, so this should
match the behavior with the legacy network stack no?
As for BOOTP_PREFER_SERVERIP, this would need to be implemented in lwip
and isn't covered by this new variable is it?
This patch is fine, I'm just challenging the justification in the commit
log.
> Add USE_TFTPSERVERIP and TFTPSERVERIP Kconfig options that can be used
> to add the 'tftpserverip' environment variable to force use of a
> specific TFTP server ip.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se>
> ---
> include/env_default.h | 3 +++
> net/lwip/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/env_default.h b/include/env_default.h
> index 7f8dc1c35a74..014873e304d8 100644
> --- a/include/env_default.h
> +++ b/include/env_default.h
> @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ const char default_environment[] = {
> #ifdef CONFIG_USE_SERVERIP
> "serverip=" CONFIG_SERVERIP "\0"
> #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_USE_TFTPSERVERIP
> + "tftpserverip=" CONFIG_TFTPSERVERIP "\0"
> +#endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_SYS_DISABLE_AUTOLOAD
> "autoload=0\0"
> #endif
> diff --git a/net/lwip/Kconfig b/net/lwip/Kconfig
> index 5789766fe624..0cfd3eb2684f 100644
> --- a/net/lwip/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/lwip/Kconfig
> @@ -72,4 +72,16 @@ config LWIP_TCP_WND
> but QEMU with "-net user" needs no more than a few KB or the
> transfer will stall and eventually time out.
>
> +config USE_TFTPSERVERIP
> + bool "Set a default 'tftpserverip' value in the environment"
> + depends on CMD_TFTPBOOT
> + help
> + Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP server to
> + contact when using the "tftpboot" command. (Environment variable
> + "tftpserverip")
> +
Does it support IPv4 *and*/or IPv6?
Cheers,
Quentin
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