Re: [Etherboot-developers] Patch to add passing FreeBSD kernel environment

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ke...@us... writes:

> >This applies to version 5.1.0 in the src directory.  It added the
> >capability to define FreeBSD kernel environment or do it via a DHCP option.
> 
> Thanks, will put it in next version.

Is there anyway we can do some kind of DHCP pass through, and just
accept extra options we are passed and pass those along?

> >Comments on picking which option value would be helpfull.  I picked 133
> >since it was the next one after 132 which is used for the boot how to 
> >flags.  ISC-DHCP did something strange when I added it to the list
> >of options to request.
> 
> Please voice opinions, pro or con, in this mailing list.

Somehow if a tag is OS specific it would be nice if the OS did
the allocation itself instead of etherboot...  And if not that we at
least would put the complexity in mknbi.  I hate to see etherboot
clutered up with OS specific code, when it has size constraints.

If we could download that code etherboot get to stay smaller.

Eric