Hi Grant,
On 2010-08-23, Detlev Zundel dzu@denx.de wrote:
Hi Jef,
- 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