Patch to allow netbooting with IBM JS21 GA3 firmware

[Doug Maxey]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:50:02 EDT, Andrew Wray wrote:
> 
> 
> Between the GA2 and GA3 firmware on IBM JS21 blades, a change was made that
> prevents yaboot from loading its configuration file over the network with
> the newer firmware.  The following patches fix the problem (with the
> exception of the scenario for booting across a router).  This has been
> tested on JS21 with GA3 firwmare, but not on JS21 with GA2 firmware or any
> other systems yet.

Oh my. Give us a boot string that illustrates the problem!  JS21 is not
the only pseries that has new firmware behaviour.  Once the new syntax
requirements are understood, you should be able to boot from a config
file on the server with pre GA3 and GA3 firmware without issue.