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From: Doug A. <amb...@am...> - 2001-06-12 15:11:26
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ke...@us... writes: | >> So you are saying that the third stage loader can access the network to | >> send and receive packets? Before when I looked at it I don't recall | >> it doing that. | > | >The third stage has access to the DHCP results so it shouldn't need | >to do any send/receive. Just parse out the DHCP options. | | Although I'm happy to accept the patch as is but with the buffer reduced | from 1024 to 256 bytes. An overhead of 256 bytes of data + tens of bytes | of code I can live with, especially as it falls on the FreeBSD booters, | not the Linux booters. :-) But in the long term, a third stage for | FreeBSD would allow functionality to be moved there. Sounds fair. Would you like me to resubmit it with that change? Thanks, Doug A. |
