Configuring network booting for a development setup
Most professional i.MX6 boards will have an internal embedded MMC (eMMC) flash memory, and that would be the recommended way to boot firmware. The Wandboard is not really a product meant for professional use, so it does not have one. But neither the eMMC nor the microSD card are ideal for development work, as any system change would involve a reprogramming of the firmware image.
Getting ready
The ideal setup for development work is to use both TFTP and NFS servers in your host system and to only store the U-Boot bootloader in either the eMMC or a microSD card. With this setup, the bootloader will fetch the Linux kernel from the TFTP server and the kernel will mount the root filesystem from the ...
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