Re: [Etherboot-developers] Q: LinuxBIOS support?

[Christoph P. <chr...@al...>]

Hello !

AFAIK Linux-Bios is a small Linux kernel which is booted directly from
the
boot vector. Only a smart chipset setup is done, all other things are
coming
from this small linux kernel, as it can handle and drive all i/o
components,
as we know :-)

So this linux kernel also can handle network and bootp/dhcp requests,
transporting files fia ftp/tftp and mounting NFS roots.

So I don't know, but possible there is not much up to nothing to do,
to support netboot here.

But again, I don't know it very well, as up to now, I have no machine,
which Linux Bios supports. If I would have one, I only would use Linux
Bios !!!!

With friendly regards
	Christoph P.

Marty Connor wrote:
> 
> On 6/16/2001 7:34 AM Eric W. Biederman ebi...@ln... wrote:
> >Assuming that a clean approach can be found to use etherboot in
> >linuxBIOS.  Would you be willing for etherboot to go in that direction?
> >The expectation here is that the linuxBIOS developers would contribute
> >the code to work with linuxBIOS.
> 
> This sounds like an interesting idea in principle.  During the time I
> have contributed to the Etherboot Project we seem to be constantly moving
> in the direction of supporting more ways for people to utilize network
> booting.  Sometimes by adding support for more cards, and sometimes by
> creating new ways to make Etherboot bootable by other loaders and
> utilities.
> 
> I think it would be fun to work with more developers, and see what we can
> accomplish together.
> 
> As they say in poker, "Deal me in". :-)
> 
> Marty
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