From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Warren Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:32:28 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] http client? In-Reply-To: <200907221621.43817.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> References: <200907221621.43817.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Message-ID: <4A67775C.90203@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 Robin Getz wrote: > On Wed 22 Jul 2009 10:04, jeffery palmer pondered: > >> We are looking for an http client now as well. Our major issue revolves >> > around the download times for tftp. > >> >> Can Volkmar Uhlig kindly provide the patches? >> >> Our units automically update themselves inside of uboot giving us the most >> control over our firmware. The issue is that it takes 20 minutes via a DSL >> line in Africa to update our units. An http test showed that the same >> firmware downloads in 30 seconds. We have also added things like the blksize >> parameter to the uboot tftp client to get it down to 20 minutes, our >> original download times were ~50 minutes. >> > > Hmm -- I'm assuming that is http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1783.html ? > > Do you have a patch to send - or that I can clean up and submit? > > Requesting a bigger blocksize is already implemented and should work if the server supports it. It's been a while since I used this, but it was added along with support for multicast TFTP, probably about a year ago. regards, Ben