Hi Albert, On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hi Albert, > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Albert ARIBAUD > <albert.u.b...@aribaud.net> wrote: >> Le 22/10/2011 06:51, Simon Glass a écrit : >>> >>> The tftpboot command permits reading of files over a network interface >>> using the Trivial FTP protocol. This patch series adds the ability to >>> transfer files the other way. >>> >>> Why is this useful? >>> >>> - Uploading boot time data to a server >>> - Uploading profiling information >>> - Uploading large mounts of data for comparison / checking on a host >>> (e.g. use tftpput and ghex2 instead of the 'md' command) >> >> Especially I find it interesting for backing up things like MTD and small >> disk files (not partitions, though). Most of my work currently is trying to >> bring mainline U-Boot support to existing boards with bad U-Boot >> implementations, and being able to backup things from U-Boot (as opposed to >> having to set up NFS root and Linux boot) would definitely be a plus. >> >>> Mostly the existing code can be re-used and I have tried to avoid too >>> much refactoring or cleaning up. >> >> :) >> >>> The feature is activated by the CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT option. >>> >>> This has been very lightly tested on a Seaboard with a USB network >>> adaptor. I don't think it handles block number overflow. >> >> What size does this limit transfers to? > > I think about 1468 * 65535 - around 95MB - it's fairly easy to fix > just by copying out the existing tftp get wrap code. I put it in the > commit message so it wouldn't get lost. > >> >>> Simon Glass (8): >>> Move simple_itoa to vsprintf >>> Add setenv_uint() and setenv_addr() >>> tftpput: Rename TFTP to TFTPGET >>> tftpput: move common code into separate functions >>> tftpput: support selecting get/put for tftp >>> tftpput: add save_addr and save_size global variables >>> tftpput: implement tftp logic >>> tftpput: add tftpput command >> >> Many U-Boot environments use 'tftp' as a shorthand to tftpboot. Did you >> verify that this is not broken by the introduction of 'tftpput'? >> >> Also, I'd be happy to test this if a branch exists that already holds these >> commits. > > I will see if I can organise one at Denx.
Thanks to Wolfgang I have something you can try: git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot-simonglass git checkout us-tftp Regards, Simon > > Regards, > Simon > >> >> Amicalement, >> -- >> Albert. >> > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot