Re: [Etherboot-developers] Wake-on-LAN patch

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

Let me suggest a challenge to those developers who want to inject
various pieces of information into Etherboot prior to the DHCP/BOOTP
query (server MAC address, TFTP server address, whatever). Come up with
a more elegant solution of where to store such information other than in
the ROM code itself. Maybe there are hooks in modern BIOSes to store and
recall user-defined information from the CMOS, I don't know.  Dedicated
X-terminals (e.g. NCD, Labtam) had this advantage that there was storage
for such info and could also rewrite this info from the BOOTP reply if
the config said to do so.