Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:27:00 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Multiple ip= boot arguments? |
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Chris Friesen wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> >>>> or if I'm supposed to use a startup script instead. >>> >>> This is the preffered way nowadays. One day, hopefully, >>> CONFIG_IP_PNP can go away. >>> >> It could be done reasonably easy, you know... :-/ > > If CONFIG_IP_PNP is going to go away, what is the proposed mechanism for > netboot devices to determine the proper source address to use when > searching for a rootfs to use?
My quip was mostly that it could replaced with the existing klibc implementation, which runs in userspace.
The other option, of course, is the distribution-specific initramfs route.
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