[U-Boot] FW: which protocol do I use to send S-record files when using the loads command ?

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Grant,

> On 2010-08-23, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote:
>> Hi Jef,
>>
>>>>> 10) The system I work on is a bareboard embedded system using U-boot
>>>>> to start up. That is why we are trying to use S-record files for
>>>>> uploading new programs, and not the more efficient FTP used in Linux.
>>>> So you do have a network interface on your board?  Heck, why don;t you
>>>> use TFTP then???
>>>
>>> I didn't say that. I was trying to say that our bareboard system
>>> doesn't support Ethernet and does not have TCP/IP stack (like Linux).
>>> If our system was a Linux system, we wouldn't be having this
>>> conversation.
>>
>> We use tftp in U-Boot exactly because we also do not have a TCP/IP
>> stack :)
>>
>> tftp needs only udp is thus "not too complex" to implement on bare
>> ethernet.
>
> Doesn't "our bareboard system doesn't support Ethernet" preclude the
> use of Ethernet (UDP or otherwise)?

Yes, sorry.  I was mislead by the "and not the more efficient FTP used
in Linux".  The pure mentioning of FTP which does not make any sense
without a network port made me read the following statement not close
enough.

>> Maybe you can implement a server on your hardware?
>
> What sort of server?

It would be a tftp server of course but that is out of the question
without a network hardware.

Cheers
  Detlev

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