Re: [Etherboot-developers] pxe
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From: H. P. A. <hp...@zy...> - 2003-05-22 05:03:37
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prl...@sy... wrote: >>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. > The best phrasing would be that Etherboot would implement a PXE subset. Eventually it might implement the full spec, but that is a large effort. -hpa |