On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 09:51, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Antony, > > On 05.02.24 10:59, Antony Pavlov wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:37:50 +0100 > > Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi All! > > > >> Hello Dan, > >> > >> On 31.01.24 22:03, Dan Shelton wrote: > >>> Hello! > >>> > >>> Does barebox support booting from a NFSv4 filesystem, e.g. boot from > >>> NFSv4 filesystem into a Linux NFSv4 netroot (diskless machine)? > >> > >> The barebox network stack only does UDP/IP. There have been attempts to > >> bring a TCP stack into barebox, but none have so far succeeded to > >> make it mainline. This is a hard requirement before we can consider > >> supporting NFSv4. I hope that lwIP could fill this gap in the future, > >> but no one is actively continuing this work as far as I am aware[1]. > > > > I have started integration on picotcp into barebox in 2015, see > > https://lore.barebox.org/barebox/1436991230-14251-10-git-send-email-antonynpavlov@xxxxxxxxx/T/ > > > > At the moment I have WIP barebox-v2023.11 with integrated picotcp 2.1: > > > > https://github.com/frantony/barebox/tree/20231127.picotcp > > Cool. Looking at Oleksij's repo, it was based on your work. How well does > picotcp work for you? What open issues remain with the patch stack? Is the > barebox integration actively used in projects? > > Is https://github.com/tass-belgium/picotcp the official repository? This hasn't > seen development activity in 5 years. lwIP on the other hand still sees active > development. > > Regarding the license, inclusion of BSD-licensed code is ok. You can check out > the LICENSES/ subdirectory for the licenses covering barebox. If TCP support lands in barebox, how fast can NFSv4 support be implemented? Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd
