Integrate and enable PXE support in U-Boot
Integrate the community patches to support PXE at the Linaro U-Boot tree and make it available at Ubuntu Oneiric.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Ricardo Salveti
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Ricardo Salveti
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- John Rigby
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 11.11
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
11.06
- Started by
- Ricardo Salveti
- Completed by
- Alexander Sack
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
Headline: Linaros pandaboard hardware pack for Ubuntu comes with initial PXE support at U-Boot.
Acceptance: Installing the Pandaboard Hardware Pack on top of the LEB/Ubuntu image, stopping the u-boot boot process and being able to use PXE to boot a kernel or any image from network.
(rsalveti, Jun23) John, please go over the WI list and add any other WI that you think it's missing. This will help targeting the work for 11.06.
Work Items
Work items:
Integrate latest PXE patches from calxeda into Linaro U-boot tree: DONE
Follow with patch owner and see if he's planning to forward the patches upstream: DONE
Push Linaro U-Boot 2011.06.01 at Ubuntu (or another Linaro release containing the PXE patches: DONE
Inform the Ubuntu ARM Server guys once the package is uploaded at Ubuntu: DONE
Document Testcase to verify this feature in this blueprint summary or somwhere: DONE
Verify PXE functionality: DONE
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
