On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 08:42:00PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > Network boot autoconfiguration sets default server to next server IP > (siaddr) from BOOTP/DHCP reply, but manual configuration using net_bootp > exports only server name. Unfortunately semantic of server name is not > clearly defined. BOOTP RFC 951 defines it only for client request, and > DHCP RFC 1541 only mentions it, without any implied usage. It looks like > this field is mostly empty in server replies. > > Export next server IP as net_<interface>_server_ip variable. This allows > grub configuration script to set $root/$prefix based on information obtained > by net_bootp. > > Reported and tested by: Nikunj A Dadhania <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > --- > > @Nikunj: cosmetic changes comparing with version you tested - no need to > allocate small buffer dynamically. > > @Vladimir: I think this is useful; I will update networking documentation > in followup patch.
Vladimir, Andrei, could you take care of it? Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
