[Ppcboot-users] Re: TFTP support in ppcboot / 8xxrom

[Wolfgang D. <wd...@de...>]

Hi Till,

in message <397...@sl...> you wrote:
> 
> I was happy to have discovered the ppcboot / 8xxrom software.  However,
> after checking out the latest CVS version of ppcboot, I discovered that
> there is no TFTP support - also,  support for the FADS boards seems to
> be missing (I thought 8xxrom once supported that board - did I
> misunderstand?).

No, you are right. 8xxrom 0.3.x had support for the (F)ADS boards.

PPCBOOT will have this again, too,  and  soon  I  hope.  The  current
version  of  PPCBOOT  is  a  major  rewrite  of  the old 8xxrom code,
incomporating ideas from many other sources. The people in  our  team
are  working  on TQ boards only, so this is the first - and right now
the only - supported platform. I could have waited  with  the  public
announcement  until  more  hardware  platforms  are  available, but I
decided to release as early as possible,  hoping  that  others  help,
especially with different hardware.

We are working right now on TFTP and  BOOTP  support  for  PPCBOOT  -
these  are the very next features that will be available, followed by
PCMCIA/IDE disk support.

> My question: has TFTP really ever been added to 8xxrom (0.3.1) ? Where
> can I find version 0.3.1 - the only one out there seems to be 0.3.0
> (lacking TFTP) ?

There was/is one version of 8xxrom which comes by the name of  0.3.1;
it's by Kirk Haderlie <kha...@vi...>.

I didn't put it on the CVS server because it did not really fit  with
other  changes that went into 8xxrom by others - instead of speanding
work on such an integration I went on for PPCBOOT 0.4.x.

I'll send you a copy of Kirk's tarball in a separate message.

Wolfgang Denk

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