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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:30:56 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
Cc: "Warren Gale" <warren.gale@onstor.com>, "dl-Cougar"
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OK, Warren and Max, can you get together and mix these mods together
into one PROM?  [Warren|Max] are your changes checked in anywhere so
the other one can get a look at them?

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:25:37 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
<maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:

> I have no idea what Warren changes are. The space limitation is
> because of the common environment structure that is used by bsd,
> embedded boards and prom. Changing this structure will not be
> backward compatible, the prom will have to be upgraded every time to
> switch between releases.
> 
> The bootp solution is much more flexible, if we really want to boot
> the same kernel everywhere this is what I would do.
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Andy Sharp
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:13 PM
> >To: Warren Gale
> >Cc: dl-Cougar
> >Subject: Re: Just asking...
> >
> >Well, I'm not just asking... ~:^)
> >
> >Warren, Max, I'd like to understand why Max's changes and Warren's
> >changes can't coexist.  How can it be a space limitation?  We're only
> >talking about a handleful of bytes here.
> >
> >a
> >
> >On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:25:37 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
> ><maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There was no space in prom for a longer command without larger
> >> modifications, so we'll have to live with modifying the kernels for
> >> now.
> >>
> >> There are alternative methods of setting up the network boot
> >> without static configuration files like DHCP/BOOTP etc. Somebody
> >> with
> infinite
> >> time on their hands surely could look into this :-)
> >>
> >> _____________________________________________
> >> From: Larry Scheer
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:16 PM
> >> To: dl-Cougar
> >> Subject: Just asking...
> >>
> >> Rather than hard coding the unique TFPT boot command information
> >> into the each kernel we build is there a way to put this in a
> configuration
> >> file and either have a shorter command line to invoke the boot of
> >> the SSC and embedded processors or a prom setting that points to
> >> the TFTP boot configuration file that the kernel can read to find
> >> its nfs root and interface settings?
> >>
> >>
