Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 1996 03:11:47 -0500 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: nfsroot anyone? |
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From: gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:58:41 +0100 (MET)
I'm going to take a look into this ASAP. However, I don't think implemen- ting BOOTP into the kernel (as with 1.3.75) is such a good idea. It blows up the kernel binary for being used just once. This should instead go into the bootrom, which then sends the necessary parameters from the BOOTP handling to the kernel with the appropriate kernel command line parameters. This also reduces the number of BOOTP requests from one client. Other- wise, the bootrom sends a request, then the kernel, and finally a BOOTP user process. So, why should we implement BOOTP into the kernel? IMHO, we should discuss this further.
Bzzt, wrong answer, on the Sparc for example putting this into the kernel is the _only_ way to acquire the functionality. We do not have the option of reblowing our PROM's on SparcStations.
Later, David S. Miller davem@caip.rutgers.edu
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