From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Warren Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:42:22 -0800 Subject: [U-Boot] [U-Boot-Users] TFTP server support in U-boot In-Reply-To: <19f3dfd10812150059i18a344dam5c25315b3e7f423a@mail.gmail.com> References: <19f3dfd10812150059i18a344dam5c25315b3e7f423a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4946B31E.10708@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 Hello Santosh, santosh pattar wrote: > Dear All, > > As of now in the U-boot only TFTP client is supported. I am planning > to have TFTP server support in the u-boot. Can you please help me in > this regarding? > > Please provide me few links if this has been done already, or links > from where i can take some information and start working on it. > > I believe this has come up before, so search the mail archives. I don't remember anybody posting a patch, though. In general, U-boot doesn't 'serve', so you have quite a bit of work to do. Luckily, TFTP is one of the more trivial protocols, hence the name. I'm curious why you want to do this. People generally use U-boot as transient software for loading operating systems that are much more suitable for serving images. Do you have a situation where you have several identical devices and want to reduce the upstream network load? In that case, you may want to look into the multicast TFTP instead. regards, Ben