Re: AW: [Etherboot-developers] Splashimage / Bootlogo

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >Sounds sane.  One thing I would like to do in conjunction with this
> >is to figure out what we need to do to relocate etherboot.  Allowing
> >arbitrary to be down loaded.  If you don't have to support callbacks
> >this is trivial, with callbacks this becomes a more interesting
> >challenge.
> 
> Nope, no callbacks are involved, only a return address and a returned
> long in EAX.

Which is almost a callback, but it easier to deal with.  The PXEEMU
case definitely requires callbacks :(  How is the boot filename specified? 
 
> >Mostly I think etherboot can be moved to the highest available address
> >below 4G, with just a touch of care.  The challenges are keeping the
> >overhead down, and still allowing dos BIOS calls.  Because that needs
> >a small chunk below 1MB.
> 
> That'll be great.

Right that is ideal.  But I keep looking for something a little easier
to code up.

Eric