Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tests: Test IPv6 and ppc64 in the PXE tester

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

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On 28.09.2016 03:59, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:17:19AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 27.09.2016 06:17, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:17:46PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
[...]
>>>> diff --git a/tests/pxe-test.c b/tests/pxe-test.c
>>>> index b2cc355..0bdb7a1 100644
>>>> --- a/tests/pxe-test.c
>>>> +++ b/tests/pxe-test.c
>>>> @@ -21,14 +21,14 @@
>>>>  
>>>>  static const char *disk = "tests/pxe-test-disk.raw";
>>>>  
>>>> -static void test_pxe_one(const char *params)
>>>> +static void test_pxe_one(const char *params, bool ipv6)
>>>
>>> Is it wise to keep the "PXE" name.  OF style netbooting isn't really
>>> PXE in the sense of the Intel PXE spec, although it overlaps in the
>>> underlying protocols used.
>>
>> Strictly speaking, you're right. But the overlap from the networking
>> protocol point of view is 95%, I'd guess, basically you can say that:
>>
>>  PXE = TFTP + DHCP + some few DHCP extensions
> 
> (aside on subtle English usage at [0] if you're interested)
[...]
> [0] A native speaker would probably say "a few" DHCP extensions here.
> "some few", oddly enough, reads as very slight sarcasm implying that
> there are actually quite a lot of extensions, or at least more than
> you'd expect.

Oh, good to know, that's the things that you miss as a non-native
speaker ... so I actually really meant "a few" here (though some of the
extensions are IMHO rather strange).

 Thomas



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