On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 06:49:58PM +0530, Anshu Kumari wrote:
> Introduce the --dhcp-boot flag that sets the boot file URL for
> network boot specially for ipxe. This patch adds the option
> storage and CLI parsing.
> 
> Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=192
> Signed-off-by: Anshu Kumari <anskuma@redhat.com>
> ---
>  conf.c  | 9 +++++++++
>  passt.h | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c
> index 2624e58..61a393f 100644
> --- a/conf.c
> +++ b/conf.c
> @@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ static void usage(const char *name, FILE *f, int status)
>  		"    a single, empty option disables the DNS search list\n"
>  		"  -H, --hostname NAME 	Hostname to configure client with\n"
>  		"  --fqdn NAME		FQDN to configure client with\n"
> +		"  --dhcp-boot URL	Boot file URL for network boot\n"
>  		"  --dhcp-opt CODE,VAL	Set DHCP option by code\n");
>  	if (strstr(name, "pasta"))
>  		FPRINTF(f, "    default: don't use any search list\n");
> @@ -846,6 +847,8 @@ static void conf_print(const struct ctx *c)
>  			info("    router: %s",
>  			     inet_ntop(AF_INET, &c->ip4.guest_gw,
>  				       buf, sizeof(buf)));
> +			if (c->dhcp_boot[0])
> +				info("    boot file: %s", c->dhcp_boot);
>  			for (i = 0; i < c->custom_opts_count; i++)
>  				info("    option %u: %s",
>  				     c->custom_opts[i].code,
> @@ -1239,6 +1242,7 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv)
>  		{"migrate-no-linger", no_argument,	NULL,		30 },
>  		{"stats", required_argument,		NULL,		31 },
>  		{"conf-path",	required_argument,	NULL,		'c' },
> +		{"dhcp-boot", required_argument,	NULL,		32 },
>  		{"dhcp-opt", required_argument,		NULL,		33 },
>  		{ 0 },
>  	};
> @@ -1472,6 +1476,11 @@ void conf(struct ctx *c, int argc, char **argv)
>  				die("Can't display statistics if not running in foreground");
>  			c->stats = strtol(optarg, NULL, 0);
>  			break;
> +		case 32:
> +			if (snprintf_check(c->dhcp_boot, sizeof(c->dhcp_boot),
> +					   "%s", optarg))
> +				die("Boot file name too long: %s", optarg);
> +			break;

IIUC, --dhcp-boot foo is equivalent to --dhcp-opt 67,foo

Is that right?  If so, it would be preferable to make that more
explicit in the code, using a single way of storing the options and a
common "Add dhcp option helper" that's called from both the
--dhcp-boot and --dhcp-opt handling.


>  		case 33: {
>  			unsigned long code;
>  			const char *comma;
> diff --git a/passt.h b/passt.h
> index acb57dd..2354a0f 100644
> --- a/passt.h
> +++ b/passt.h
> @@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ struct ctx {
>  
>  	char hostname[PASST_MAXDNAME];
>  	char fqdn[PASST_MAXDNAME];
> +	char dhcp_boot[PATH_MAX];
>  
>  #define MAX_CUSTOM_DHCP_OPTS	32
>  
> -- 
> 2.54.0
> 

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