On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:27 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Robert,
>>
>> Hey, I finally downloaded one of your prebuilt images for the first time
>> last night, and was doing a bit of poking around. I never ran it though,
>> just used mount -o offset* . . .
>> But I was curious about how nfs-uEnv.txt seems to have non standard uboot
>> variables in it Am I wrong, or did you make some additional changes ?
>> "client_ip" seems added( I'm used to ipaddr ), etc. It really cool you're
>> making NFS easily accessible for others thiough
>
> It's kinda of two fold. They are non-standard in the sense, u-boot has
> used these other variables for years. I just used the kernel docs (1)
> and did sed s/-/_/g on them.  While at the same time I didn't want to
> break existing nfs users by over writing their expected defaults nfs
> u-boot variables. ;)
>
> 1: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt

btw, one of the other big reasons for the ipaddr -> client_ip change..
I need a hook in u-boot to hint, hey we want to try booting via nfs:

So if, "client_ip" is set: it runs thru this:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/Bootloader-Builder/blob/master/patches/v2014.07/0001-am335x_evm-uEnv.txt-bootz-n-fixes.patch#L142

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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