Hi Wolfgang > > In message <20181001094646.11539-1-christian.gmei...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > From: Thomas RIENOESSL <thomas.rienoe...@bachmann.info> > > > > Prep. work to support nfs v1. > > Hm... as you are putting efforts into NFS support... > > Here comes a more general question: > > I wonder if it's worth the work on NFS at all, or if we should > remove NFS support from U-Boot alltogether? > > 1) We support only NFS v2 (and v3) in U-Boot, and most standard Linux > distros support only v4 in their default configurations. >
Linux is not the only operating system used in the world. My NFSv1 server runs on a vxWorks 5 device which I need to support - sadly. > 2) We support only UDP, but most standard Linux distros support only > TCP in their default configurations (see [1]) > > [1] > http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=fbd7623dd8d5e418e7cb369d4026d5368f7c46a6 > > Try a NFS download from any recent Linux distro (i. e. one including > nfs-utils 2.3.1 or later)... > That is true. > > I feel a half-way solution is unsatisfactory, but the way for the > Real Thing (TM) is a pretty long one... > > The fact that nobody compained yet that NFS stopped working fo him > suggests that there are only very, very few users of NFS at all. > If one of these is willing to step up and fix this for real, he is > of course more than welcome. But if not - should we not remove the > more or less obsolete code? > As u-boot is lacking TCP support this is quite a challenging task. I have seen some work in progress patches, which I have reviewed and hoped that it helps to get them further. I am also interested in using ftp directly in u-boot. At the moment we are using uip as tcp stack and hacked together a ftp client. If you want to remove nfs all together I need to keep nfs in our downstream repo which is kinda sad but doable. -- greets -- Christian Gmeiner, MSc https://christian-gmeiner.info _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
