On Saturday 30 August 2008, Andreas Zuber wrote: > Am Samstag 30 August 2008 10:06:01 schrieb Torfinn Ingolfsen: > > Hi, > > > > I just got a strange idea into my head. So I'll ask a possibly silly > > question: > > > > Is it possble to netboot a Neo FreeRunner? Can you netboot at all over > > usb? Does uboot have netbot support? > > I know uboot from an other embedded system, where it was installed, and it > is able to download a kernel from a tftp server to the memory. This is done > by the "tftpboot" command. > There is also a "dhcp" command so uboot can get an ip for the network. > > But i dont know if uboot can handle the usb as a network device. Someone > has already tried this?
I think it can be done, but you will now need a custom kernel. When moving the USB ethernet gadget driver from built-in to module Andy Green (IIRC) mentioned that someone needed it builtin for netbooting with rootfs on NFS. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community