Re: [PATCH v2] bootp: add native DHCPv4 support

[Daniel Kiper]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:34:19PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 09:26:20PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > This patch adds support for native DHCPv4 and removes requirement for
> > BOOTP compatibility support in DHCP server.
>
> Sorry for the delay in testing this; I'd meant to take a look at this
> but it managed to fall off my radar.
>
> I've just given this a spin atop of 7a5b301e3adb8e05 ("build: Use
> AC_HEADER_MAJOR to find device macros"), with a small conflict manually
> fixed up (I assume that the NULL check for inter still stands).
>
> Otherwise, this seems to work perfectly for me in my BOOT-free work
> environment on an AArch64 UEFI platform:
>
> grub> insmod efinet
> grub> net_ls_cards
> efinet0 00:02:f7:00:61:79
> grub> net_dhcp efinet0
> grub> net_default_server=10.1.205.151
> grub> linux (tftp)/Image.gz
> grub> boot
> EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
> EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
> EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map...
> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x100
> [    0.000000] Linux version 4.6.0-rc5-next-20160427+ (address@hidden) (gcc 
> version 5.1.1 20150608 (Linaro GCC 5.1-2015.08) ) #8 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 27 
> 14:53:05 BST 2016
> ...
>
> As previously, I don't have a BOOTP server to hand to test with; sorry
> for not being able to test that.
>
> It would be great to see this committed!

Vladimir, Andrei, should we take it into 2.02 train?

Daniel