Support IPv6 boot/install through yaboot

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 17 23:11:18 EST 2008


On 17 Apr 2008, at 13:20, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 14:12 +0200, Roman Rakus wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332721
>>
>> Is this feature request satisfiable?
>
> Yaboot lets OpenFirmware do all the network stuff. With a suitable
> firmware, it might even work already, if yaboot isn't overzealous in
> 'validating' the IP address.

Yeah the problem is that there is no real 1275 standard for ipv6  
netboot, also ':' is a restricted char in the spec, but I believe  
that's been informally relaxed.

IIRC the Power.org PAPR specifications talk about it, and it's in  
later Power firmware so we'd just need to test it. I should also look  
how the OLPC openfirmware ipv6 implementation works.

Paul



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