Re: [Etherboot-developers] NBP Help

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Peter Lister <P.L...@sy...> writes:

> Adding UNDI support as an Etherboot driver would be a good NBP project
> and could form the basis of a useful open source NBP toolkit. It would
> be useful to quite a few people because it would make Etherboot via PXE
> easier to set up for sites which have many hardware types.

I will agree it has potential.  As long as we prefer the internal
etherboot driver we should be fine.
 
> You could also improve Etherboot's PXE support (i.e. so that Etherboot
> can provide PXE to other NBPs), maybe merging the existing the NILO code
> so that Etherboot can run any NBP. The standard of the Intel PXE code
> library (used in most vendor's NIC firmware) is - er - low. Look at
> HPA's pxelinux pages or read the syslinux list to see just how low. Even
> devoted PXE users would like better open source PXE firmware; Etherboot
> (and it's driver library) is the obvious platform and has had skeleton
> PXE support added already (which, I note, Eric B just migrated to its
> very own pxe.c). This could be chainable (a "menu module"?) from a
> "vanilla Etherboot" in turn loading a "real" NBP like NTLOADER. Or even
> be statically linked with an existing binary NBP...

Note currently this code does not compile on non-freebsd, because it depends
on freebsd headers.   And I have broken the freebsd compile by
placing an #if 0 #endif pair around those include to encourage someone
to fix this.

Eric