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From: <ke...@us...> - 2001-07-09 07:54:31
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>>2) Do you think it would be possible to do a similar thing using >> RPL instead of PXE ? I haven't a clue where to start, but there >> sure are alot of motherboards out there with RPL embedded, and it >> would be cool to do the 'RPL->Etherboot->Linux' trick. > >Check out: > > http://gimel.esc.cam.ac.uk/james/rpld/index.html > >It looks ugly, but apparently they got something to work. With some >work, one could probably fool RPL cards into loading Etherboot. > >Who wants a chance at fame and glory? :-) It looks even easier than PXE. The RPL config file looks like it has enough features to specify portions of files and their memory destination. So you could take disnbi and hack it to generate a config file fragment for a tagged image. So there you are, you could be 5 minutes hacking away from fame and glory. Just buy me a beer when you get there. :-) PS: Ah, actually it doesn't seem to allow arguments to be passed to loaded programs so you may need to forget about first32.c and devise some other way to pass kernel arguments eventually. |
