X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from ncopa-laptop.res.nor.wtbts.net (187-40-195-254.user.veloxzone.com.br [187.40.195.254]) (using SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: nc@alpinelinux.org) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A209DC00E6; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 17:31:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 17:28:04 +0200 From: Natanael Copa To: Hugo Landau Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] initrd and kernel-mode DHCP Message-ID: <20130404172804.255b904a@ncopa-laptop.res.nor.wtbts.net> In-Reply-To: <515BC2F2.1050701@devever.net> References: <515BC2F2.1050701@devever.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.15; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:49:38 +0100 Hugo Landau wrote: > Hi. > > Is there any purpose to having CONFIG_IP_PNP=y in the Alpine kernel > configuration? It appears that this feature necessitates network > drivers to be built into the kernel, rather than as modules, but > since Alpine builds such drivers as modules, the feature is unusable. > Correct me if I'm wrong on this. You are probably right. I am currently on vacation so could you please create an issue on https://bugs.alpinelinux.org for this so I does not get forgotten. > > If this were disabled, we could instead handle "ip=dhcp" in the > command line via the initrd init script and udhcpc, after network > drivers were loaded. The inclusion of network drives in the initrd > would be configurable via mkinitfs to keep default initrd sizes down. > > The ultimate goal here is to enable Alpine to usefully PXE boot. Once > Alpine is able to obtain an IP at the initrd phase, further > modifications to the initrd init script to permit NFS or HTTP servers > to be specified in the alpine_dev argument should be relatively > straightforward. This is something we want yes. Thanks! -nc --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---