Re: [Etherboot-developers] Additional Features in Etherboot

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Christoph Plattner <chr...@al...> writes:

> Hello !
> 
> One word to:
> 	-DLOCALBOOT_DEINIT_NIC
> 
> This option should no be an option. IMO it is very important to handle
> the full deactivation of all devices touched in the net booting stuff
> and in boot loaders.
> 
> This is true for etherboot (also for GRUB). Before any system is booted,
> kernel is started or a local system is loaded, all devices used or
> touched should be clean deactivated. I also so the effect one day under
> Windows, that it explicitly cannot operate on the NIC. 
> 
> So a good design should include the activation (probing) and a clean
> "close" before jumping to the loaded kernel or to the chainloaded image.

Agreed.

Eric