[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] 1/5: cmd_boot

Wolfgang Denk
2003-03-31T15:57:53Z

In message <20030331151712.GL7702@pengutronix.de> you wrote:
>
> > Seriously, if you are running kermit to do the transfer using minicom, why
> > bother with minicom? Document for your users how to use kermit and make
> > them type the commands -- menus aren't everything and minicom's menus are
> > anything to write home about anyway.
>
> Users may use Linux or Windows for their console machine, so the
> transfer protocol has to be machine independend and should be available
> out of the box on most of the machines out there. Which limits it to
> xmodem, zmodem and kermit.

Don't forget S-Record. Actually most people I've seen working on
windoze boxen preferred S-Record download using hyperterm (or
whatever this tool was called).

> Folks, Linux is about having the choice. I like the user interface of
> minicom better than that one of a command line tool like ckermit. U-Boot
> shouldn't force people on one policy.

You write: "the transfer protocol has to be machine independend and
should be available out of the box on most of the machines out
there".

Please name a terminal program that is available in a more machine
independend way or on more machines out there than CKermit.

To me the only logical conclusion of your own arguments is that you
should be using CKermit.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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