From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pull NFS server address off root_server_path
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:31:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020913013153.GP32156@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209130032.KAA32528@thucydides.inspired.net.au>
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 10:28:29AM +1000, Martin Schwenke wrote:
> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>
> Alan> You are probably much better using the initrd based dhcp
> Alan> client from things like the LTSP project (ltsp.org) than the
> Alan> kernel one
>
> That's probably true in the long term. For the short term, is the
> initrd-based stuff working right now? I didn't think it was quite
> there yet...
Well, initrd works (as opposed to the still-in-progress initramfs),
but setting up an image to do the DHCP, NFS mount and pivot_root is a
pain in the bum. LTSP is all i386 (afaict), which helps me not at
all.
> If the patch goes in now, I won't be terribly disappointed if it comes
> back out, along with (most of) the rest of the ipconfig stuff, if the
> initrd-based stuff works acceptably before the feature freeze...
>
> I would think that if there's a chance that the ipconfig stuff will
> stay in for 2.6, and this patch improves it, then it should probably
> be merged. The patch has been in use at OzLabs for about 6 months
> (since I moved the DHCP server off the NFS server :-) to help boot the
> embedded boxes that David Gibson is doing bring-up work on.
--
David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and
| wrong.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-13 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 2:08 [PATCH] Pull NFS server address off root_server_path Martin Schwenke
2002-09-12 8:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-13 0:28 ` Martin Schwenke
2002-09-13 1:31 ` David Gibson [this message]
2002-09-16 8:32 ` Rob Landley
2002-09-13 13:14 ` Alan Cox
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