Re: recommended method of netbooting kernel/dtb in u-boot?

2013-04-11 Thread Kumar Gala
On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: Hi all, We've got a powerpc system that uses u-boot. In our environment on bootup u-boot does a DHCP to get networking info, then uses TFTP to get the kernel, which then does DHCP again and NFS-mounts the initial root filesystem.

Re: recommended method of netbooting kernel/dtb in u-boot?

2013-04-11 Thread Chris Friesen
On 04/11/2013 12:12 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: Hi all, We've got a powerpc system that uses u-boot. In our environment on bootup u-boot does a DHCP to get networking info, then uses TFTP to get the kernel, which then does DHCP again and

Re: recommended method of netbooting kernel/dtb in u-boot?

2013-04-11 Thread Ira W. Snyder
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:39:00PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: On 04/11/2013 12:12 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: Hi all, We've got a powerpc system that uses u-boot. In our environment on bootup u-boot does a DHCP to get networking info,

Re: recommended method of netbooting kernel/dtb in u-boot?

2013-04-11 Thread Chris Friesen
On 04/11/2013 01:50 PM, Ira W. Snyder wrote: I use a hardware setup which sounds similar to yours. The DHCP server controls which file is sent to each card. I use the FIT image format to combine a kernel, dtb, and initrd in one package. snip I used the U-Boot doc/uImage.FIT/*.its examples to