From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:00:24 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] FW: which protocol do I use to send S-record files when using the loads command ? In-Reply-To: (Grant Edwards's message of "Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:34:09 +0000 (UTC)") References: <226BC4AFA29FC24789DFD00DFF3084C2524247EECE@SAFEMAIL.safetran.railad.com> <20100819200638.2FD9B157D71@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Grant, > On 2010-08-23, Detlev Zundel 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 -- So maybe I lost track of my point. But if I left a mark, C-x C-x should be all I need. -- David Kastrup, emacs-devel.gnu.org <87hbj37v4x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu at denx.de