Hi, I'll try to gather this info for you.
--S On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko<phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, David. I'm currently working on improving network support in > GRUB2. On IEEE1275 we use read/write functions to receive/send packets > in conjunction with a IP+UDP+ARP+BOOTP+TFTP implementation. On IBM > machines when netbooted we get BOOTP/DHCP reply use by IEEE1275 in > "bootppkt" property which allows us to easily, reliably and > automatically configure GRUB to continue loading from the same server > using same network parameters. However on my Sun Netra X1 I have to use > RARP and I haven't found the network boot configuration in device tree. > So my questions are: > 1) Is there any way to retrieve client and server IP on sparc64 used by > IEEE1275 or do we have to redo RARP ourselves? > According to a web search newer sparc machines use BOOTP or DHCP instead > of or as an alternative to RARP. > 2) Do they store bootp reply in some property? > 3) If they don't is there a way to at least determine which protocol was > used (RARP, BOOTP or DHCP)? > Thank you in advance. > > -- > Regards > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
