From:  William Hermans <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date:  Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 1:24 PM
To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Re: TFTP from u-boot: slow and buggy

> Yeah, but I'm not loading uboot over the network. Just the kernel and file
> system. Plus that is a guide using Ubuntu for which my instructions wont work
> on. As I used Debian.
> 
> One curious thing however, and perhaps I am wrong for loading uboot via a
> network. I do not use or need a dhcp server for my instructions, and am
> thinking a dhcp server is not necessary if you use static IP's. But I am not
> 100% sure where, or how uboot would get its IP from if you're loading it via
> network.
> 
> Anyhow, having multiple dhcp servers on the same network can cause problems
> which may be difficult to trace down. Even if they are technically on
> different subnets, Hence why I do not use a BOOTP/DHCP server.
You¹re right, since we use u-boot to do TFTP, I¹m not sure what Brendan is
trying to do. On my SDCard, I have MLO, u-boot.img and uEnv.txt.

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:13 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> From:  Brendan Bleker <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Date:  Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 1:02 PM
>> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject:  [beagleboard] Re: TFTP from u-boot: slow and buggy
>> 
>>> Have you got this to work?
>>> 
>>> I've been working on a very similar thing, only I'm trying to load u-boot
>>> through TFTP. You may find the following TI wiki useful:
>>> 
>>> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Ubuntu_12.04_Set_Up_to_Network_Boot_
>>> an_AM335x_Based_Platform
>>> 
>>> At this point I have not got a Network Bootable img file, that is where I'm
>>> stuck...
>> William¹s instructions are much easier to follow:
>> 
>> http://www.embeddedhobbyist.com/debian-tips/beaglebone-black/beaglebone-black
>> -nfs-root/
>> 
>> Robert describes the uEnv.txt setup which works great for me.
>> 
>> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:U-boot_partitioning_layout_2.0#nfs_support
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:47:12 AM UTC-8, Lee Crocker wrote:
>>>> I have a setup that loads u-boot onto the BBB over the serial port, and
>>>> then tells u-boot to load the .dtb and kernel from a local TFTP server.
>>>> Loading the small .dtb file works perfectly (although slowly), and
>>>> succeeds. Loading the kernel takes too long, causes lots of retries, and
>>>> finally errors out. If I manually get the kernel from that same TFTP server
>>>> onto my laptop, it loads in about 11 seconds--over wifi--so the server is
>>>> working fine. It's just u-boot's TFTP client that seems to be causing the
>>>> errors. I have seen other messages around the net advising changing the
>>>> server's block size to 1468, which I did, and telling u-boot to turn dcache
>>>> off, which isn't an option anymore, but it still fails.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone actually got this working? Which tftp server are you using, and
>>>> what parameters? Is there a patch to u-boot that might fix its client?
>>>> 
>>> 
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