On 2010-08-23, Detlev Zundel <d...@denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Jef,
>
>>>> 10) The system I work on is a bareboard embedded system using U-boot
>>>> to start up. That is why we are trying to use S-record files for
>>>> uploading new programs, and not the more efficient FTP used in Linux.
>>> So you do have a network interface on your board? Heck, why don;t you
>>> use TFTP then???
>>
>> I didn't say that. I was trying to say that our bareboard system
>> doesn't support Ethernet and does not have TCP/IP stack (like Linux).
>> If our system was a Linux system, we wouldn't be having this
>> conversation.
>
> We use tftp in U-Boot exactly because we also do not have a TCP/IP
> stack :)
>
> tftp needs only udp is thus "not too complex" to implement on bare
> ethernet.
Doesn't "our bareboard system doesn't support Ethernet" preclude the
use of Ethernet (UDP or otherwise)?
> Maybe you can implement a server on your hardware?
What sort of server?
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