From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Warren Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:39:51 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Added a tftp command In-Reply-To: <200903311948.14937.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <49D29CC5.2010406@fearnside-systems.co.uk> <200903311901.03029.vapier@gentoo.org> <49D2A9EB.3090006@fearnside-systems.co.uk> <200903311948.14937.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <49D2F017.5050709@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 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 31 March 2009 19:40:27 kevin.morfitt at fearnside-systems.co.uk wrote: > >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 18:44:21 kevin.morfitt wrote: >>> >>>> Adds a "tftp" command that gets a specified file from a TFTP Server and >>>> stores it in RAM at a specified RAM address. Most of the code already >>>> exists in board-specific form (eg in board/hymod) but this patch >>>> extracts it and makes it available as a standard u-boot command. >>>> >>> your patch is horribly word wrapped. ignoring that, how is this any >>> different from the "tftpboot" command ? i use "t " to load >>> arbitrary files via tftp to arbitrary addresses all the time. >>> >> "tftpboot" loads the file then if "autostart" is "yes" it automatically >> boots from the load address. The patch just loads the file then stops. >> When programming a board I use it to copy images across before I program >> them into flash. In effect, it does the same thing as setting >> "autostart" to "off" then using "tftpboot". >> > > so dont set autostart ? > -mike > > Yeah, seriously. Just script it. regards, Ben