RE: [Etherboot-developers] World domination, anyone?

[Timothy L. <tl...@ro...>]

> I'll start by listing some of the things that personally come to mind:
> 
> 	o USB support

I am interested in this area.  Right at the moment, I would be more
capable of porting the Pegasus driver than the subsystem.  The spec is
still gathering dust here.

> 	o PCMCIA support

I may have access to a Laptop in the near future and this may be of some
interest.  I suspect that supporting this with a hack (similar to the
3c515's ISAPNP) would be fairly easy.

> 	o UNDI driver
> 	o PXE Support
> 
???

> But what do you think?  If we went for PXE or UNDI, where are the big
> wins? I'm always thinking about ways Etherboot could be used by more
> people, and how we could become even more useful as a component
> technology.

To throw it out there is there any possibility of Etherboot replacing
PXE as a Standard?  

Also, if there was a way to end the need to tag kernels that would
probably win some points.

> Btw, this is much more than of theoretical interest. I'd like to see
us
> implement something really cool for LinuxWorld Expo SF in August, and
I
> may be able to swing some limited funding for some of this.

Cooler than booting an OS through a NIC? ;-)

> Ok, so go ahead. What do you think would be cool to do? Could you do
> it? Do you know who could or would? And, most importantly, would it
> bring us closer to WoRLd DomINatIoN? ;)
> 
Way out there (is it even possible).  Supercomputer status diskless
cluster?