Ok, let's put it this way. We have an intention to remove wanboot from illumos. If *anyone* will be impacted by this, or realistically anticipates being impacted by it (recognizing that it only affects SPARC, and that TFTP network booting will remain possible), please speak up NOW.
This may well impact folks with SPARC based distributions. I'm not aware of any of those that support wanboot, but this serves as advance warning. If you care at all about wanboot, SPEAK UP NOW or forever hold your peace. I'm cross-posting to illumos-discuss just in case someone there has a configuration where this is an issue. Distribution maintainers, an affirmative reply that you've received this, and can confirm that you have no impact (or that you do), would be appreciated. On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Joshua M. Clulow via illumos-developer < [email protected]> wrote: > On 6 August 2014 10:52, Paul Armstrong via illumos-developer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 2014-08-06T10:48-0700, Garrett D'Amore via illumos-developer wrote: > >> Alternatively, can we extract the OpenSSL requirement from wanboot, so > >> that it just uses unencrypted IP? (That should be sufficient for any > >> realistic use, I would think.) > > > > This seems like the best change. Leaves WANBoot in place for those who > > need/want it but removes the OpenSSL dependency so it's not a bear to > > maintain and stripping OpenSSL from the base can move forward from > > there. > > That really only makes sense if somebody steps up to compile and test, > and then subsequently use, wanboot at all. The technology is only > applicable to SPARC machines, so that seems quite unlikely at this > point. > > -- > Joshua M. Clulow > UNIX Admin/Developer > http://blog.sysmgr.org > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-developer > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182179/21239177-3604570e > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
