OK, thanks for the feedback. I'll check out netconsole.

Best regards,

Tony.

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-----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd@denx.de] Sent: 01 August 2005 15:40 To: Tony Ford Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] MPC852T ethernet

In message 30062B7EA51A9045B9F605FAAC1B4F62511CBC@exch01.quadrics.com you wrote:

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Given that u-boot can handle ethernet comms. I was looking

at how I could

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enable telnet as an alternative to a serial connection.

You cannot. Ther eis netconsole, though. Please read the documentation.

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The first step would seem to be to respond to interrupts on receipt of an ethernet packet. It was this first step I was asking

for feedback

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on.

No such thing is needed for netconsole.

Also, processing an interrupt is not enough. Some U-Boot drivers already use interrupts. That's not the problem. But U-Boot is inherently single-threaded. This is a much harder restriction.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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