> On Feb 11, 2015, at 5:19 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.ha...@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 04:54:09PM +0800, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD 
> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 4:35 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.ha...@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 03:26:46PM +0800, Bo Shen wrote:
>>>> Hi J,
>>>> 
>>>> On 02/11/2015 01:06 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>>   as state before I use the atmel board for bootp everyday as the 
>>>>> defaultenv-2 does not support
>>>>>   this Nack until it’s fixed
>>>> 
>>>> Do you mean the defaultenv-2 doesn't support the bootp feature or do
>>>> you mean let Doug to keep the default boot from net?
>>>> 
>>>>>   I did send patch for this in the past but they did not hit the mainline
>>>> 
>>>> Can you point us this? Thanks.
>>> 
>>> He meant this patch:
>>> 
>>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2012-September/thread.html#9304
>>> 
>>> Reading this discussion again I still have mostly the same opinion:
>>> an /env/boot/* script should be simple, it should be adjustable.
>>> 
>>> We should resolve this now.
>>> 
>>> So Jean-Christophe, What you want is to boot your board with
>>> informations provided by the dhcp server. Looking again at your patch
>>> back then the following should do it:
>>> 
>>> /env/boot/bootp:
>>> 
>>> | #!/bin/sh
>>> | 
>>> | path="/mnt/tftp"
>>> | 
>>> | ifup eth0
>>> | 
>>> | # Set variables based on information provided by the dhcp request
>>> | nfsroot="${global.dhcp.rootpath}"
>>> | global.bootm.image="${path}/${global.dhcp.bootfile}"
>>> | global.bootm.oftree="${path}/${global.dhcp.oftree_file}”
>> 
>> this is not possible unfortunately
>> 
>> As if you use symlink the nfs will not work
>> it was work on defaultenv as it’s use the nfs commande and not FS
>> The nfs command handle symlink;
> 
> Let me recap: On the host you have some directory exported as NFS. It
> contains a link to some other position:
> 
> /export/somelink -> /some/other/file
> 
> Now if I mount /export on barebox 'somelink' points to /some/other/file,
> a path that doesn't exist in barebox, some the file cannot be read. The
> NFS command implementation now mounts '/some/other' from the NFS server
> and reads 'file' from that location.
> 
> This is really a misfeature is something that we shouldn't support at
> all.
> 
> Can't you just make your link a relative one inside the exported
> directory? That works just fine and as expected.

unfortunately no can’t do so why not just add my old patch that work in all case

Best Regards,
J.
> 
> Sascha
> 
> 
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