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Date:      Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:21:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 a
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020404132122.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204041811.g34IBpq7038011@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On 04-Apr-2002 Brian Somers wrote:
>> brian       2002/04/04 09:58:21 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/i386/i386        autoconf.c 
>>     sys/ia64/ia64        autoconf.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Back out the previous commit.
>>   
>>   In the i386 case, options BOOTP requires options NFS_ROOT as well as
>>   options NFSCLIENT.  With *both* the NFS options, a bootpc_init()
>>   prototype is brought in by nfsclient/nfsdiskless.h.
>>   
>>   In the ia64 case, it just doesn't work and my change just pushes it
>>   further away from working.
>>   
>>   Suggested to be wrong by:       bde
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.166     +0 -1      src/sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c
>>   1.13      +0 -1      src/sys/ia64/ia64/autoconf.c
> 
> Methinks that options BOOTP hasn't been tested much on non-i386 
> platforms.  The call to bootpc_init() isn't present on alpha or 
> powerpc and I'm suspicious about ia64 & sparc64.

Considering I installed my ultra60 over the network and exclusively network
booted it using bootp prior to that, I'm fairly sure it works peachy keen on
sparc64. :)

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