Re: [Etherboot-developers] pxe

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> I believe that is also the case for FreeBSD.  Though I am not
> terribly fond of the way FreeBSD support is currently built.  There
> is no future proofing in there.

Open source should not depend on PXE.

> Given the holes in the implementation calling it emulation is
> probably a fair description.  But then again given the holes
> in the PXE spec/practice we might qualify as implementing it.

The implementation may be incomplete - but one *emulates* something
else. My point was that Etherboot would not "emulate" PXE or be somehow
"artifical" or suboptimal - quite the opposite...

Bochs, for instance, does not "emulate" BIOS calls - it implements them,
just as Award does. It may frequently sit on top of emulated "hardware",
but that's different - put it on ADLO and LinuxBIOS and I think it is
fair to say that there is no "emulation" going on, or at least no more
than a "normal" BIOS on the mobo.