Re: [Etherboot-developers] [RFC] Relocation techniques...

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>Given that it is safer for the loaded image to bring along it's
>network driver, and stack, because the loaded image can be recompiled
>and fixed.  

That's probably the solution, download a LinuxBIOS to provide PXE
services. That's not silly at all. You can't buy new memory sticks
smaller than 256M now. 100 Mb Ethernet is pretty standard and
downloading a 500kB Linux kernel takes just a fraction of a second.
Won't work on old machines? Well you can't run Windoze on old machines
anyway, which is what those people want PXE for.

And the biggest laugh will be when people use PXE to download Etherboot
using Peter and Vasil's clever hack, to download a LinuxBIOS, to
download Windoze, because it's easier to get LinuxBIOS to work than
broken PXE firmware.  I love it.