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

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

> > It's the age old problem of how to communicate load locations to the
> > loader. Etherboot does it by prepending a directory in front, but this
> > annoys people who want to boot kernel images fresh from the build.
> > Personally I don't see an extra tagging step is a big hassle. Maybe one
> > day all kernel images will be netloader friendly out of the build.
> 
> Some people seem offended by the idea of tagging. A few months ago,
> someone on the syslinux / pxelinux list referred to LTSP's nbi images as
> "polluted". This seems odd to me, but maybe if you are used to the
> syslinux view of the world it makes sense.

Another perspective is that it is an Executable file format, which
is litterally the case when you use ELF.
 
> > Another way might be a smart TFTP daemon that can assemble virtual
> > tagged images on the fly.
> 
> It would nice to be able to break out into perl (i.e. a tftp cgi) since
> mknbi is perl anyway.

Unless you were careful the overhead of perls interpretation could
easily get in the way. 

Eric