From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: In-reply-to: <1185912661.9310.143.camel@enki.eridu> References: <31368.1185909681@falcon10.austin.ibm.com> <1185912661.9310.143.camel@enki.eridu> To: Paul Nasrat Subject: Re: ipv6 in yaboot Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:08:49 -0500 Message-ID: <32757.1185916129@falcon10.austin.ibm.com> From: Doug Maxey Cc: Linux PowerPC List , yaboot-devel@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:11:01 BST, Paul Nasrat wrote: >On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:21 -0500, Doug Maxey wrote: >> Howdy! >> >> I just got asked about ipv6 support in yaboot and a quick investigation >> showed _no_ knowledge of the address formats in the code. > >We really just use OF for obp-tftp and don't have our own ip stack, True. Was just curious about the handling of the address formats, where the xxxx:... will probably be used. Several spots already make lots of assumptions that the colons are only in the disklabel. > as >there is no 1275 standard for ipv6 (although some modern IBM firmwares >which also have iscsi support it) it's somewhat hard. Oh, I agree completely. Publication is still being worked. The good news is that the description is already there. Once folks can see the whole enchilada. > >> Should I be submitting an RFC for a full parser that can pick that >> apart? Or does has someone have code lurking in the shadows, that >> just needed some prompting? :) > >Have you tried it with firmware that supports obp-tftp over ipv6? Heh. Not yet, but RSN.