Hi Grant, On 8/23/2010 2:10 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-08-23, Detlev Zundel<d...@denx.de> wrote: > >>>>> 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)? >> Yes, sorry. I was mislead by the "and not the more efficient FTP >> used in Linux". The pure mentioning of FTP which does not make any >> sense without a network port made me read the following statement not >> close enough. > I thought maybe I had lost track of who posted what. :) > >>>> Maybe you can implement a server on your hardware? >>> What sort of server? >> It would be a tftp server of course but that is out of the question >> without a network hardware. > Now that you mention it, I have implemented a tftp server for U-Boot. > > We needed a way to recover "bricked" units in the field, and there's > simply no way we could require out customers to install a tftp server > on their machines. Making U-Boot the tftp server and our "restore" > program the client solved several problems. I also find have U-Boot > be the server is a lot more convenient for development use. [It also > U-Boot commands to be sent via the tftp protocol.] > > I thought about submitting patches (it's pretty much a stand-alone > addition except for 3-4 lines in net.[ch]). But it was made > abundantly clear that tftp server code for U-Boot would never be > considered -- I was scolded for even asking about it. > I can see how this could be useful. Please reconsider and we'll try to keep the scolding to a minimum :)
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