From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:50:19 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] u-boot-atmel support for SMSC9514 In-Reply-To: <20120125062919.46D6C1208DC0@gemini.denx.de> References: <20120125062919.46D6C1208DC0@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <201201251850.19855.marek.vasut@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > Dear Wilson Perez, > > In message you wrote: > > I am currently using u-boot-2009.11 on an Atmel at91sam9g45 and would > > like to add support for the SMSC9514 to be able to run tcp/ip over usb. > > The > > U-Boot has only a minimal network stack; we can do some UDP, but we > cannot do TCP/IP. We can also do ICMP ;-) > > > goal is to load kernel and filesystem images for system recovery via tftp > > on a tcp/ip over usb interface. > > This makes no sesen. TFTP is a UDP based protocol. You don't need > TCP/IP for it. I think he means he wants to load kernel with tftpboot ... for that, he has to update u-boot to a more recent (mainline) version and simply use the USB ethernet stuff. I think this particular chip is supported already. M > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk