Re: [Etherboot-developers] Question on supporting nVidia .o driver

[Peter L. <P.L...@sy...>]

> It seems I did misunderstand you here, however, I was imagining that 
> nvnetlib.o is full of APIs that take kernel-defined structs as 
> parameters, etc, and at least to this extent it will need to be kept 
> satisfied.

I didn't make it too clear, but my cursory inspection did establish that
the only linux related stuff seems to be the "driver" part, (nvnet.c
nvnet.h os.h), and NOT the "NIC API" parts (basetype.h phy.h adapter.h).
I'm basing my guesses to a significant degree on the "looks like they
did the right thing, so they probably did" principle.

We want to use the Linux driver as guide and then write an EB driver to
the NIC's API.

> Yes, this work should be equally applicable to the nForce motherboards, 
> in case the xbox is a bit contentious for them.

Sure. I think Etherboot and LTSP are "respectable" enough.

Also, if anyone out there has a non-Xbox mobo, it might make EB
development a bit easier.

> The .o can be kept at arms length from whatever shim is needed to 
> interface it to the etherboot stuff, I can imagine it can be distributed 
> in a way that nobody will be unhappy.

And again, we can at least ask. They probably just don't know about EB.