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u-boot for odroid
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netbook for xu? #4

Closed ericvh closed 11 years ago

ericvh commented 11 years ago

u-boot does seem to detect ethernet when it comes up. It would be a nice addition to be able to netboot the odroid-xu. Thanks.

rzk commented 11 years ago

On all recent odroid boards networking is connected this way: Exynos SoC USB HSIC -> SMSC USB HSIC to USB2.0 converter -> SMSC USB-Ethernet with hub. So, to have network boot, you need to setup all of these, and current u-boot can only hande internal exynos usb-host, not the HSIC. Luckily, some of the work is already done, there is a driver for SMSC USB-Ethernet http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=drivers/usb/eth/smsc95xx.c, but I have no idea about everything else. If you can get the NDA'd user manuals for Exynos SoCs and write the support - go on.

Also, ODROID has public forums, where you should post this, probably in this section http://forum.odroid.com/viewforum.php?f=55

Best Regards, Dmitriy Beykun

mdrjr commented 11 years ago

We have no plan right now to add this support to u-boot.

Thank you for your idea. We'll consider it.

Best Regards, Mauro