yaboot and netboot

[Paul Nasrat]

> I am trying to add support for ipv6 in yaboot. While testing found  
> that
> I have to get the ciaddr, siaddr etc., appended to the device name for
> ipv6 . If I do not do that the boot path ends up being just
> network_device:filename, which doesn't lead to a resolution.

Cool. Do we actually have an informal 1275 extension document  
describing ipv6 net operation, or is it merely implementation derived.

> While looking at the code found that the behavior is same for ipv4  
> also.
> i.e the siaddr,ciaddr,giaddr,subnet-mask that I give when I invoke the
> boot is not passed on to the next step (to get yaboot.conf).

> Am I missing something ? Shouldn't yaboot be using the value I  
> provided
> for subsequent steps ?


I'll need to recheck the obp-tftp extension documentation and the code.

I'm planning a yaboot hack day tomorrow - details to list shortly.

> Here is an example (with 1.3.14 and DEBUG set to 1):

Please use retest against git HEAD (you should be using that for new  
development) - http://yaboot.ozlabs.org has instructions.

Paul