> From Mroczek, Joseph T > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 5:11 PM > > From: Vladimir 'f-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 7:06 AM > > > > On 19.04.2014 02:26, Mroczek, Joseph T wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > > > Currently, grub does not support getting boot server information > > > from a > > proxy DHCP server. This patch set adds this support for EFI. If the > > approach is good, I will go back and create a i386-pc patch as well. > > > > > > It works by combining the contents from the two DHCP packets into a > > single source. This seems simpler and cleaner than updating all the > > DHCP code to work with multiple packets and juggling precedence across > > all the options. > > > > > > Any help in getting this support into grub would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > We have patch for similar problem for i386-pc port (attached). > > The main problem with it is that it wasn't tested. If you can confirm > > that it works for EFI as well (after adaptations from your patch), we > > could commit pxe2.diff and necessarry adaptations on top of it. > > > ~joe > > Attached is an updated version of the patch. It is against grub-2.02~beta2. I > have tested the following environments: i386-pc-pxe, i386-efi, and x86_64- > efi. All network variables except boot filename were set properly > (expected), and I was able to continue boot normally. There is one caveat, I > had to add the patch to correct routing behavior for the boot server that I > previously proposed. I don’t feel that is relevant to the validity of this > patch. > > Please let me know if there is anything I can do to assist with integration of > this support. >
I don’t see this in the list of commits. Is there anything I can do to help this patch along? ~joe _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
