Dear Matthew Lear, In message <4a896ed5.3010...@bubblegen.co.uk> you wrote: > > Is U-Boot able to log its actives etc to a machine accessible via the > network?
U-Boot has support for netconsole, if that is what you are looking for. > Desirable -> U-Boot being able to log all its boot up info and details > regarding booting it's OS image etc (ie everything sent to stdout) to a > file on a remote machine. Note that netconsole does not output _all_ of U-Boot boot messages; it takes a lot of initialization until the network interface becomes operational, but this is usually only an issue during the port of U-Boot to new hardware. For normal deployment of a known-to-be-working image it's OK. > Scenario - multiple deployments all housed in sealed units on a LAN. > Network based monitoring is the only option. No problem. Use netconsole. > I'm sure I read somewhere that UDP logging is available in U-Boot but > information on this doesn't seem to be hugely available. Well, it's documented. Just read doc/README.NetConsole > I've got netconsole running via netcat on a host pc but this is console > only and is not ideal for a multi-platform deployment model. Although, "not ideal"? What exactly are you missing? > saying that, I suppose that doing 'set ncip <server ip>' and 'set stdout > nc' and running netcat on a host pc would provide some level of diagnostics. > > Is anybody able to offer any advice or strategy here for similar > requirements? Try to explain what your exact problems with netconsole are. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de That was the thing about deserts. They had their own gravity. They sucked you into the centre. - Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
