Subject: lib/1732: libnetboot does not work on little endian machines and with some NFS servers
To: None <jtp@cs.hut.fi>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/06/1995 12:06:36
> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 10:40:55 +0200
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> >Number:         1732
> >Category:       lib
> >Synopsis:       libnetboot does not work on little endian machines and with some NFS servers
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       low

> >Responsible:    lib-bug-people (Library Bug People)
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov  6 03:50:01 1995
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Jukka Partanen
> >Organization:
> 	Helsinki University of Technology
> >Release:        NetBSD-current around Oct 25
> >Environment:

> >Description:
> 	Libnetboot does not work on little endian machines (e.g. i386).
> 	All NFS servers I have access to (including NetBSD) require 
> 	RPCAUTH_UNIX in most operations.
> 	With the patches below I'm actually able to use libnetboot for
> 	bootp and NFS downloading.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	Try to use it on a little endian machine and with an NFS server.

All of this is fixed in src/sys/lib/libsa so we should just
declare libnetboot dead and delete it.

Gordon Ross