From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Kevin Nicoll <blort128@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multiple ip= boot arguments?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:27:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BE90D4.1030506@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45BE9043.5020508@nortel.com>
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.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-30 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-29 18:36 Multiple ip= boot arguments? Kevin Nicoll
2007-01-29 20:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-30 0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-30 0:24 ` Chris Friesen
2007-01-30 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
[not found] ` <45BE73C8.5010005@celunite.com>
2007-01-30 9:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
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