From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Dec 2 14:30:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBDD37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:30:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4145743E4A for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmoestl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 2679 invoked by uid 0); 2 Dec 2002 22:30:46 -0000 Received: from p508e5688.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO forge.local) (80.142.86.136) by mail.gmx.net (mp003-rz3) with SMTP; 2 Dec 2002 22:30:46 -0000 Received: from tmm by forge.local with local (Exim 4.10 #1) id 18Iz5f-0000n6-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 23:30:59 +0100 Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:30:58 +0100 From: Thomas Moestl To: Markus Wild Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netbooting freebsd-sparc64 howto Message-ID: <20021202223058.GB405@crow.dom2ip.de> Mail-Followup-To: Markus Wild , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200212022151.WAA86673@mail.kpnqwest.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212022151.WAA86673@mail.kpnqwest.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2002/12/02 at 22:51:36 +0100, Markus Wild wrote: > > You still need tftp for boot net:dhcp. bootp just provides a filename > > and machine to download from, it doesn't actually transfer files. The > > firmware uses tftp to grab a particular file from the specified machine. > > On the matter of bootp and the various BOOTP kernel options: what is > the rationale behind the sparc64 port _not_ using a cpu_rootconf() > function (such as for example in the i386 port) to avoid refetching > the network parameters that the firmware loader already retrieved and > passed on to the kernel, at least as an option? You don't need BOOTP any more. The setup is done in sys/nfsclient/nfs_vfsops.c (since r.1.122), and obtains the parameters from the loader via the kernel environment. - Thomas -- Thomas Moestl http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ PGP fingerprint: 1C97 A604 2BD0 E492 51D0 9C0F 1FE6 4F1D 419C 776C To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message