[U-Boot-Users] what exactly is netconsole

Hi,

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.

Does this imply a "one-way" output connection only or does it allow a remote connection into the target - similar to telnet.

Our project requires remote network access to U-Boot because the deployed the system will not include a serial port.

-andy