Re: [Etherboot-developers] Universal auto-probing driver

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Vasil Vasilev <vas...@sy...> writes:

> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Peter Lister wrote:
> 
> >
> > [Sorry, if I said this before ]
> >
> > PXE users are more likely to want a pre-built binary (e.g. pxelinux is
> > generally distributed prebuilt). An all-drivers image would be a useful
> > default for PXE users; Etherboot image is tftped, PXE users are not
> > significantly affected by image size.
> 
> PXE actually has a limit of 32K for the size of the first downloaded image
> (NBP as they call it).

On Itanium it is not quite so limited but the PXE stack also can't
handle loading anything large, so you always need a NBP.

Eric