[Etherboot-developers] [Q] How do we pass options to the DHCP server, are we failing?

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I am currently trying to get a grip on how we are passing options
to the DHCP server, and I think there are some problems, but I don't
quite get how we are encoding the options.

1) We do not pass the NIC vendor and device id in the DHCP discover,
   only in the DHCP request.  If anything it should be the other way
   around.

2) I need pass the architecture etherboot is running on so I can
   magically serve up an image that will boot.  The plan is to extend
   how we are passing the NIC id's, add another tag type, and pass
   the ELF architecture type, we need it anyway for other reasons.
   But the code is a little convoluted, and a first glance I don't get
   how we are passing the NIC vendor and device ids.  

   Could someone give me a quick synopsis, of how we intend to be passing
   the NIC vendor and device ids?