Netbooting like PXE

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 10:33 +0100, Benoit Guillon wrote:
> Benoit Guillon wrote:
> 

> Sorry for the delay, I've tried the patch and it works fine on our 
> platform (except that I had to adapt a bit the load_config_file since 
> the patch was not really synced with 1.3.14rc1).

Could you post a patch against the current git tree (see
http://yaboot.ozlabs.org )

> Another PXE feature that I think is quite interesting is the ability to 
> ask for appending to the kernel arguments the mac-address from which it 
> has been booted on. In the pxelinux configuration file it is specified 
> by adding 'ipappend 2'. It then sets the variable BOOTIF=macfile, so 
> that the initrd can determine from which interface the system booted and 
> then configure it (dhcp client, etc.).

That seems reasonable and wouldn't be too much work.

Paul