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

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

Ken Yap wrote:
>>The UNDI driver discussion seemed interesting as 
>>well, though I need Peter or Vasil to explain how it works -- one more 
>>time :)
> 
> 
> I like the sound of this one actually.  My impression is that the idea
> is that the driver calls UNDI software interrupts. In Etherboot this
> would require a bunch of stub routines in asm callable from C. I don't
> know what the UNDI entry points are like? Are they low level, like
> read/write a network packet, or high level, like get a file by TFTP?
> Where are the readable specs? Ok, maybe just some specs? :-) What
> revision level of the specs should we be aiming for? Peter or Vasil?
> 

There are basically three levels of support in PXE: UNDI, which are raw 
link-layer packets, UDP, and TFTP.  The latter two are referred to as 
the "base code" (BC).

> 
> Apropos of something else, does anybody know if recent BIOSes support
> booting from USB flash, or is that regarded as too prone to abuse? If
> USB booting is supported, does it work like a floppy disk?
> 

Works like a hard disk.

	-hpa