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* Patch by Detlev Zundel, 08 Sep 2004:

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Update etags build target

* Improve NetConsole support: add support for broadcast destination
  address and buffered input.

* Cleanup compiler warnings for GCC 3.3.x and later

* Fix problem in cmd_jffs2.c introduced by CFG_JFFS_SINGLE_PART patch
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@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ serial and network input/output devices by adjusting the 'stdin' and
set either of these variables to "nc". Input and output can be
switched independently.
We use an environment variable 'ncip' to set the IP address and the
port of the destination. The format is <ip_addr>:<port>. If <port> is
omitted, the value of 6666 is used. If the env var doesn't exist, the
broadcast address and port 6666 are used. If it is set to an IP
address of 0 (or 0.0.0.0) then no messages are sent to the network.
On the host side, please use this script to access the console:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
@ -19,6 +25,21 @@ nc -u ${TARGET_IP} 6666
stty icanon echo intr ^C
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It turned out that 'netcat' couldn't be used to listen to broadcast
packets. We developed our own tool 'ncb' (see tools directory) that
listens to broadcast packets on a given port and dumps them to the
standard output. use it as follows:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#! /bin/bash
stty icanon echo intr ^T
./ncb &
nc -u mpc5200 6666
stty icanon echo intr ^C
kill 0
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For Linux, the network-based console needs special configuration.
Minimally, the host IP address needs to be specified. This can be
done either via the kernel command line, or by passing parameters