Bug 467426

Summary:	[LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201166:Support IPv6 boot/install through yaboot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Roman Rakus <rrakus>
Component:	yaboot	Assignee:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dwmw2, ejratl, notting, pnasrat, rrakus, tsmetana
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Patch
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Hardware:	ppc64
OS:	All
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Last Closed:	2010-01-28 09:54:56 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	463597
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Description Roman Rakus 2008-10-17 12:31:35 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #463597 +++

=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-16 18:04 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201166]
a. Name of Feature:	Support IPv6 boot/install through yaboot
b. Feature Description
Add the IPv6 capability to yaboot.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	PPC
Architectures:
ppc64

Arch Specificity: Purely Arch Specific Code
Affects Installer: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	Device Drivers and IO
Request Type:	Other
d. Upstream Acceptance:	In Progress
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	IBM code
g. Component Version Target:	Code submitted to yaboot community this week.

3. Business Case
The IPv6 boot/install capability is required on all platforms by mid-2008 for government business.

Benefits
This is to enable the IPv6 full support with Linux on Power systems. This capability is required by
all system sold to government by mid-2008.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Stephanie Glass, sglass.com, 512-838-9284

Technical contact(s):
Daisy Chang, daisyc.com
Chandra Seetharaman, chandra.seetharaman.com

IBM Manager:
Wendel Voigt, wvoigt.com

--- Additional comment from notting on 2008-10-02 16:16:49 EDT ---

Placing in NEEDINFO pending upstream code acceptance and release.

--- Additional comment from bugproxy.com on 2008-10-08 15:20:45 EDT ---

Patches posted to yaboot-dev mailing list on Sep-15:
http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH-0-4--yaboot-tftp-boot-extensions-and-ipv6-support-to19503401.html

--- Additional comment from bugproxy.com on 2008-10-17 08:15:38 EDT ---

Hello RedHat,

Just wondering about the deadline.

i.e By when this feature has to be available in mainline yaboot to be accepted for RHEL 6 ?

Thanks

Comment 1 Roman Rakus 2010-01-28 09:54:56 UTC

Already done