Hello Dan, On 19.02.24 03:17, Dan Shelton wrote: > 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? Depends on who's volunteering to do it. :-) If your question instead is how much effort a NFSv4 port would be, Uwe did the NFSv3 port and may have an guesstimate for this? Cheers, Ahmad > > Dan -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
