Re: P autoconfig doesn't work in 2.3.46

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 16:39:06 EST


> > "it has-got-to-go" (with elaboration) so I don't think your plea is
> > going to get farther than 2.4.x. :)
>
> I second the plea for bootp. How does one boot a reclacitrant sun
> without it? Silo doesn't work on all the boot chips out there. At
> least, not last time I looked (or tried).

You netboot a kernel with attached initrd. That already works on the sparc.
We don't yet have a general solution for this for all platforms so for
2.4 it has to stay

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