Dear Rob Sciuk, > On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Marek Vasut wrote: > > Bootp is weird junk, just use tftp to transfer your files (using the > > 'tftp' command in U-Boot) and then 'bootm' that stuff. Note that the FDT > > location is passed to the kernel in one of the CPU registers, R2 IIRC. > > > > Best regards, > > Marek Vasut > > True, but dhcpd/bootp only knows about the kernel file ... when using the > dhcp protocol to download the file system, fdt and kernel, you have to > explicitly arrange for the files other than the kernel image to be loaded > into memory first. Hence the extension ... and yes, R2 contains a pointer > to the fdt (on PPC, not sure about ARM), but it has to get to RAM somehow > ... unless you have it in flash and are point to it directly ...
Uh, so why not switch to tftp or nfs since it's much easier to work with ? Best regards, Marek Vasut
