[U-Boot] [PATCH] config: Define BOOTP client architecture and VCI for ARMv8

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Mar 25 17:58:36 CET 2015


On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 02:07:42PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 03/20/2015 11:08 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:22:59AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>On 03/20/2015 06:11 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>>From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> >>>
> >>>Reuse the 32-bit ARM client architecture and identify ARMv8 specifically
> >>>by setting the BOOTP VCI string.
> >>
> >>Is there a newer version of
> >>https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4578.txt that says what this value
> >>should be? Even 32-bit ARM isn't in that document, so I'm not sure
> >>where 0x100 came from.
> >
> >I wonder if 0x100 is treated by the PXE implementations as "set but
> >invalid, don't use".  Digging into some PXE servers would shed some
> >light here.
> 
> I can't actually find any use of this in ISC DHCPd. At most, it
> might be a value that user config files can match against if they
> want. I guess it's not worth worrying about?

Yeah, sounds like it to me.

-- 
Tom
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