ipv6 in yaboot
    Paul Nasrat 
    pnasrat at redhat.com
       
    Wed Aug  1 06:11:01 EST 2007
    
    
  
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, as
there is no 1275 standard for ipv6 (although some modern IBM firmwares
which also have iscsi support it) it's somewhat hard.
> 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?
Paul
    
    
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