From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18367 invoked by alias); 18 May 2006 15:14:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 18352 invoked by uid 22791); 18 May 2006 15:14:43 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from londo.lunn.ch (HELO londo.lunn.ch) (80.238.139.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 18 May 2006 15:13:24 +0000 Received: from lunn by londo.lunn.ch with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FgkB2-0007dQ-00; Thu, 18 May 2006 17:12:36 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 15:14:00 -0000 To: David Vrabel Cc: "Doyle, Patrick" , 'Andrew Lunn' , "'ecos-devel@sources.redhat.com'" , 'Andrew Dyer' Subject: Re: RedBoot patches regarding redboot_getc_terminate Message-ID: <20060518151236.GE11223@lunn.ch> References: <446C8BE9.10503@arcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <446C8BE9.10503@arcom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Andrew Lunn X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-devel-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 > I'm not entirely happy with the fix. It terminates the download when all > the relevant bits of the ELF have been transferred. The causes the > sender to think that the file transfer has failed which causes some > customer confusion. It is possible to include a text string in the error message. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1350.html, figure 5-4. So maybe a message like "Remaining file contents not required" would prevent confusion. This assumes the lame tftp servers actually display the message to the user. > I think a better solution would be for the downloader to continue to > transfer the remaining portions of the ELF image and just throw them away." This can be a lot of data, eg the complete debug symbol table if the image has been compiled -g. I would not really be in favor of that. Andrew