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Re: RedBoot: don't initialize network if we don't have an IP address
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: David Vrabel <dvrabel at arcom dot com>
- Cc: eCos Patches <ecos-patches at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:11:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: RedBoot: don't initialize network if we don't have an IP address
- References: <4267ACEE.7070901@arcom.com>
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:38:54PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch prevents the networking portion of RedBoot from being
> initialized if we don't have a valid IP address (i.e., the IP address is
> all zeros) and we're not using BOOTP.
>
and
> This patch adds an -b option to the ip command in RedBoot. This option
> causes RedBoot to perform a BOOTP/DHCP request to obtain a new IP
> address (etc.). It also updates the RedBoot documentation to cover the
> new option.
Both committed,
Thanks,
Andrew