[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] uboot-lantiq: Enable TFTP PUT support for backups

John Crispin john at phrozen.org
Sat Aug 12 13:29:33 PDT 2017


On 12/08/17 19:04, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Backing up the current firmware from U-Boot over serial can take hours.
> Booting a working Linux image for backup purposes is not always an option.
> Using the tftpput command in U-Boot is the fastest and easiest way.
>
> tftpput will upload the contents of a memory region to the TFTP server.
> The IP address of the server is stored in the serverip variable.
>
> Usage:
> tftpput <memaddr> <length> <filename>
>
> Example for a complete flash backup of an o2 Box 6431 (VGV7510KW22):
> VGV7510KW22 # tftpput 0xB0000000 0x1000000 o2boxbackup.bin
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
Hi,

by how much does this increase the binary size ?

     John



> ---
>   .../patches/0022-MIPS-lantiq-add-default-openwrt-config.patch          | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/boot/uboot-lantiq/patches/0022-MIPS-lantiq-add-default-openwrt-config.patch b/package/boot/uboot-lantiq/patches/0022-MIPS-lantiq-add-default-openwrt-config.patch
> index 3b50c98..20bff44 100644
> --- a/package/boot/uboot-lantiq/patches/0022-MIPS-lantiq-add-default-openwrt-config.patch
> +++ b/package/boot/uboot-lantiq/patches/0022-MIPS-lantiq-add-default-openwrt-config.patch
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com>
>   
>   --- /dev/null
>   +++ b/include/configs/openwrt-lantiq-common.h
> -@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
> +@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
>   +/*
>   + * Copyright (C) 2013 Luka Perkov <luka at openwrt.org>
>   + *
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com>
>   +/* Commands */
>   +#if defined(CONFIG_LTQ_SUPPORT_ETHERNET)
>   +#define CONFIG_CMD_PING
> ++#define CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT
>   +#endif
>   +
>   +/* Compression */




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