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From: Tom <Tom.Rix@windriver.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] TFTP on beagle board
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:12:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B02E790.1080206@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <782515bb0911171000p3c253d6l6605dcf6bb011c5b@mail.gmail.com>

Nishanth Menon wrote:
> <snip linux-omap>
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Mai Daftedar wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>   I was wondering how can we configure the u-boot with the TFTP
>>> capability on the beagle board at runtime..
>> For this you will need ethernet support in U-Boot. There are two (?) options
>> to achieve this: Add support for USB ethernet dongle in U-Boot or use a
>> Beagle expansion card with ethernet.
>>
>> Regarding USB ethernet dongle, there are some basic USB patches for Beagle
>> U-Boot on the list. But I'm not sure how much work it is to enable them to
>> support USB ethernet.
>>
>> For ethernet on expansion board, there is TinCanTool's Zippy board [1]. To
>> access ethernet on this board from U-Boot, an U-Boot OMAP3 SPI driver is
>> missing.
>>
>> Both options are not ready, yet, and need some development work. Any help is
>> greatly appreciated!
> 
> A third option might be to support RNDIS or CDC usb gadget support and
> use the usb port with beagle.. tom might be able to comment better.

This is one of my development activities.
The cdc usb gadget is the gadget in the usb/cdc branch I am working
to first support.  I think I am fairly close to seeing some real traffic.

The goal is to get the usb/cdc branch into the mainline at the same time musb 
support has been added.

Tom


>> Cheers
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> Btw.: I added U-Boot list, it is the better place to discuss this.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.tincantools.com/product.php?productid=16147&cat=0&page=1&featured
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-17 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-11-17  6:36 ` [U-Boot] TFTP on beagle board Dirk Behme
2009-11-17 18:00   ` Nishanth Menon
2009-11-17 18:12     ` Tom [this message]

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