Netbooting like PXE

[Paul Nasrat]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:56 +0200, Benoit Guillon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I currently use yaboot to boot diskless boards, but the booting 
> configuration can be different from one node to another.
> 
> Thus, an interesting evolution of yaboot would be that it can grab a 
> configuration file whose name is built from its mac address first, and 
> fallback to the default yaboot.conf file if the mac-file does not exist. 
> It would behave like PXE clients, or like some X terminals like NCD.
> 
> Please find attached a patch that implements it, just to show that the 
> changes are very small. I can of course send the complete source files, 
> but I guess that you would code it in a more clean way :-)
> 
> What do you think?

I think Nathan also had a patch to do this more fully supporting
pxelinux fall through.

Nathan can you send that to list and we can discuss both patches.

Paul