From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mastupristi Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:42:57 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] adding tcp In-Reply-To: <20041103162854.0362CC1430@atlas.denx.de> References: <389686f204110307591146b919@mail.gmail.com> <20041103162854.0362CC1430@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <389686f2041103084237c03568@mail.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 On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:28:49 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > We use u-boot 0.4.0 and we need to add tcp protocol. > > Is it possible? > > Yes, and it's trivial. It's a two-step procedure. In the first step > you will start standard U-Boot, and in the second step you will boot > an operating system (Linux recommended). No. We need to embed tcp in u-boot. > In other words: don't. U-Boot is a boot loader, and you don't need > nor want a full TCP stack here. unfortunately we need to provide some features (involving tcp) before linux was boot. Is it so difficult to embed tcp in u-boot? > BTW: I strongly recommend to update - version 0.4.0 is _very_ old. We were asked to use 0.4.0. Obviously I prefer to use a more recent version but unfortunately we can't. thanks -- Mastupristi?