[Etherboot-developers] Relocation & friends....

[Eric W B. <ebi...@ln...>]

I have enough code working with LinuxBIOS, that I am back on etherboot
getting hard driver booting, and multicast booting working.

So I don't have to go back and do a lot of rethinking later, I have
implemented the little bit of infrastructure needed for relocation.
That is an xstart32 function so I have a hook before we leave etherboot,
and virt_to_bus, virt_to_phys, and ioremap + readb and company.
It will take a while before all of the drivers are updated so that
it all works, but that isn't a huge challenge, just tedious.  The final task
is to get special handling for the 16bit BIOS interface code.

I couldn't access cvs at sourceforge this evening, so syncing up will
have to wait until next week.

But things should definitely be on the move.  One of the things I want to
check out is to see if atftp-0.6 works with the existing tftpm implementation.

Portability issues so etherboot can be ported to another hardware platform
are something I care about now too, so it will be interesting to see
where all of this can go.

And of course watch out for Adam Agnew, as he has some work on signed boot
images that he was threatening to submit earlier today.

Eric