Re: [Etherboot-developers] [RFC] Multicast reception....

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Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <an...@ho...> writes:

> > Right the code is already doing this correct.  But thanks for the catch.
> 
> You wrote about putting public your code. Did you? Where can I get it, is the 
> CVS always the uptodate source (I never worked with CVS before)?

I'm getting there.  I'm so busy working on it that I haen't had a free moment
to do that yet.  Hopefully I can get that done later today. 

> As now minor changes to some (sooner or later most/all) hardware drivers 
> arise (though only triggered when MULTICAST is enabled) perhaps 5.0.7-rc 
> should stay rc for some days, so that these changes can make their way to the 
> next release. The opposite argumentation would be to release stable and 
> old-fashioned, giving the multicast out to public retarded. That's not what I 
> (my two cents, you know, thanks to Peter Billson for explaning me that 
> phrase) like, the more public the better the testing. We don't force anyone 
> to enable that configuration switch.

There are pieces that could make 5.0.7-rc but I have enough changes in
other parts of the code with hard driver booting etc, that I'd rather
push it to 5.0.8. 
 
> To Eric:
> What about the standard protocol (or less-standard?) you want to have for 
> multicast? Do you have documentation at hand? 

Yes I have one but I'm not going to fix anything in stone until I get
some successful large scale testing.  My biggest hold up is someone
let the test environment at work get into a sorry state.  And I have
been rebuilding it.

> Else I would like to start 
> adding tftp-mcast support as my quickly hacked daemon for that protocol at 
> least runs, on low-load-testing with two clients stably. Perhaps if ready I 
> could have a mass-test (ok, 15 clients is not much, but better that nothing) 
> the after-next weekend at my "private testing laboratory", until then I 
> should have made a release out of it, announce will follow. But of course, if 
> you have a better protocol at hand, please let me know.

Given that I will definentily see what I can push into the 5.1 tree in
cvs.

> An*getting CVS to work right now*selm

Good luck on that.  CVS works as a pretty good distribution
mechanism.  If you prefer patches I can go that route to.

Eric