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.
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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