Should we change dirent for 64 bit directory cookies ?

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:30:26PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>  > Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > One of the problems with that is that our PXE boot loader
>  > > requires NFSv2 support, AFAIK.  If you drop NFSv2 server
>  > > support from the kernel, you can't boot PXE clients from
>  > > it anymore, unless someone adds NFSv3 support to the boot
>  > > loader.
>  > 
>  > I see, thanks for the explanation... yes, it sounds like this will
>  > have to wait a while then. I am looking at the Intel PXE spec and
>  > there is no mention about NFS. I will investigate a bit more but I
>  > guess there is a new wish for the PXE guys ;-).
> 
> The PXE spec is rather low-level, i.e. bascially it allows
> for handling raw packets only.  It does not implement a
> real TCP/IP stack.  So if you want to use any higher-level
> protocols, you have to implement them yourself on top of
> the PXE interface.
> 
> Note that our bootlaoder uses libstand for the actual
> protocol implementations that are needed (BOOTP, NFS, RPC,
> TFTP).  You'll find the sources in /usr/src/lib/libstand.

A summer of code project last year implemented TCP and HTTP support.

-- Brooks
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