[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/3] net: Add option to prefer bootp/dhcp serverip

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at ni.com
Thu Jun 14 16:57:24 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
> Currently we can choose between 2 different types of behavior for the
> serverip variable:
>
>   1) Always overwrite it with the DHCP server IP address (default)
>   2) Ignore what the DHCP server says (CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP)
>
> This patch adds a 3rd option:
>
>   3) Use serverip from DHCP if no serverip is given
>      (CONFIG_BOOTP_PREFER_SERVERIP)
>
> With this new option, we can have the default case that a boot file gets
> loaded from the DHCP provided TFTP server work while allowing users to
> specify their own serverip variable to explicitly use a different tftp
> server.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>

Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>


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