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| author | Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de> | 2023-02-06 14:45:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2023-02-08 09:23:15 +0100 |
| commit | 05ab8dd0064b626b65d6e45f106c56417e3b46f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e6887583de46b3e7922628f493cbd4231370639 /Documentation/user | |
| parent | b0ad40ee6e5eceeb27e8f29ad54f80c75699e067 (diff) | |
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Documentation: networking: improve net.* variable description
Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.barebox.org/20230206134551.3227602-1-rhi@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/user')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user/networking.rst | 10 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst index 60babb513c..1a95f87e77 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst +++ b/Documentation/user/booting-linux.rst @@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ device where the entry is found on. This makes it possible to use the same rootf image on different devices without having to specify a different root= option each time. +.. _booting_linux_net: + Network boot ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/user/networking.rst b/Documentation/user/networking.rst index 9231ebde56..2306cb6a60 100644 --- a/Documentation/user/networking.rst +++ b/Documentation/user/networking.rst @@ -45,15 +45,17 @@ device: | | | any directly visible subnet. May be set | | | | automatically by DHCP. | +------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+ -| global.net.server | hostname or | The default server. If unspecified, may be set | -| | ipv4 address | by DHCP | +| global.net.server | hostname or | The default server used by the defaultenv boot | +| | ipv4 address | scripts for NFS and TFTP; see | +| | | :ref:`booting_linux_net`. | +| | | If unspecified, may be set by DHCP. | +------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+ | global.net.nameserver | ipv4 address | The DNS server used for resolving host names. | -| | | May be set by DHCP | +| | | May be set by DHCP. | +------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+ | global.net.ifup_force_detect | boolean | Set to true if your network device is not | | | | detected automatically during start (i.e. for | -| | | USB network adapters) | +| | | USB network adapters). | +------------------------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------+ The first step for networking is configuring the network device. The network |