Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:57:25 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha autoconf.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 autoconf.c src/sys/boot/common dev_net.c loader.8 src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf src/sys/conf NOTES files options src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c locore.s src/sys/ia64/ia64 autoconf.c ... Message-ID: <3430.1089305845@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:53:15 BST." <20040708175315.60f4577a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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In message <20040708175315.60f4577a@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes: >Thinking out loud, I now suspect that the only reason it was really necessary >to have BOOTP_* configured into a kernel before this commit is if you don't >have pxeboot(8) or loader(8). > >Is there anybody out there that uses the BOOTP* options that can confirm this ? >Do I need to back out this commit ? This is mostly a leftover from the old network boot proms which would generally bootp+tftp a file and nothing more. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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