[PATCH v2 0/4] NFSv1 support

[Christian Gmeiner]

Hi Peter,

> >
> > This patch series adds support for NFSv1 and is more
> > or less a rebased version of an older series.
> >
> > During V1 there was a discussion if it really makes sense
> > to bring more features into the network stack of U-Boot as it
> > is just a bootloader. As TCP support landed I thought I might
> > give this patch series another try.
>
> So the real question is what use does this bring? TCP is useful
> because it can enable support for modern features like UEFI HTTP boot.
> What is the use of NFSc1? The Linux kernel is removing support for
> NFSv2 and according to wikipedia v1 was only ever used internally to
> Sun so I'm not sure what the wider use of this functionality would be?
>

You know there are other operating systems used in the wild. One of them is
vxworks. The company I work for supports software versions for more than 10
years and customers do not want to update to newer software versions
as the process
of approval for wind turbines/parks is very costly and time intensive.
For security
issues we provide patches for older versions that the customers are
switching to.

We are shipping devices right now which are based on vxworks 5. Some
customers are using our "processor modules" as NFS server for e.g. other
"processor modules" to boot from. If you want/need I can go into further details
about our use case.

So I know It is a quite specific use case but we want to upstream most
of our downstream
patches.

Btw. if this patch series will not land does this mean NFSv2 will die too soon?

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Christian Gmeiner, MSc

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