From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:39:46 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] CLI over Ethernet In-Reply-To: <003601c4d5f3$ec391670$4501a8c0@bgcw301> (srivatsan@deccanetworld.com's message of "Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:45:08 +0530") References: <003601c4d5f3$ec391670$4501a8c0@bgcw301> Message-ID: <87mzx0o5xp.fsf@deepthought.outer.space.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Srivatsan, > Had I mentioned requirement for the group or the code has to rewritten > by uboot group which I know is ethically wrong then I would have made a > mistake. But I just required all your help to give me a head start with > the available resources for my problem. Don't worry - It was simply kind of amusing that you told us "there is a requirement to support ...." without the "in our project" part that I expected. Lets get back to (hopefully) solid facts. > Also I haven't asked for particular CLI (requirement with LLC) to be > developed and given to me. What I have asked is the advantage of having > CLI over Ethernet using LLC? This is an interesting question and probably you have an answer for us? Reading up on LLC I am not really sure what a CLI implementation would give us - despite the need for a completely separate set of tools to work with this protocol. Using UDP (belonging to the IP family) we can simply use the heapload of utilities available - especially "netcat" comes to mind. The netconsole support was written with this in mind to support (as Wolfgang said) a seamless networking console for the U-Boot / Linux combination. The Linux netconsole support predates the netconsole in U-Boot so it was clear that we would go for compatibility with this implementation. > This group is not for showing emotions. [complete quote snipped] It is also not for posting complete quotes. Please try to understand that it is a waste of bandwidth and of our time to include these completely useless text parts. I can always look up the old mails if I want to see these bits - E-Mail can be very efficient so please try to use it in this spirirt - even if this entails the 15 minutes it takes to read the netiquette. Cheers Detlev -- Once the implementation is up and running, it is still a trick to keep it running. In a normal, closed implementation, this is not a problem; in a system with metaobject protocols [..] there is the potential for spectacular failure modes if certain situations are not properly anticipated. -- The Art of the Metaobject Protocol