Re: [Etherboot-developers] mknbi-1.2-7rc2 released

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

It's new, but GRUB has now the current state of Etherboot !
Not only some drivers of an old state. Since some week, we have
5.0.5 driver with the current PCI init (inclusive bus master
enabling,etc).

When GRUB is up, BOOTP and TFTP is working, where is the problem
you mention, why PXE ?

Bye
Christoph P.

PS: Again, I do not want to have a competition between Etherboot and
GRUB. I like both in conjuntion !



Ken Yap wrote:
> 
> >Sorry to say this again, but I prefer using GRUB together with
> >`etherboot', and so nobody has to deal with `mknbi' in connection
> >with UNIX systems (for DOS mknbi is already needed so far).
> 
> There's no accounting for taste. :-)
> 
> GRUB suffers from the problem that it uses another copy of the network
> driver so you have to decide ahead of time which hardware you want to
> support when building GRUB. Ideally secondary loaders should be able to
> use the boot ROMs network driver. Hmm, sounds very much like PXE. I wish
> I had the time to rework Etherboot's architecture to allow callbacks so
> that secondary loaders can do network operations. Not necessarily PXE
> style, just having callbacks would be nice.
> 
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