Dear Andrew,
in message 411BBB19.4060800@mc.com you wrote:
A recent post mentions that U-Boot now has netconsole features, at least on the ocotea PPC440 board. What type of functionality does this provide? I did find, on the web, that netconsole is UDP based at is typically used as a networked console for kernel debugging.
In general it is a good idea to read the available documentation. Ideally, you do this BEFORE posting to the mailing list.
May I bother you to have a look at the doc/README.NetConsole file?
Does this imply a "one-way" output connection only or does it allow a remote connection into the target - similar to telnet.
U-Boot has bidirectional communication over the network, i. e. both stdin and stdout can be redirected (indepoendently!) to the netconsole device.
Our project requires remote network access to U-Boot because the deployed the system will not include a serial port.
It's ready to use...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk