[Etherboot-developers] Re: TCP and HTTP support

[<ke...@et...>]

>I always thought that HTTP couldn't be that difficult to do, if it was 
>strictly limited to the small subset that Etherboot needs. 15 hours 
>later, I have the proof ;-)
>
>The attached patch is against 5.0.11, as that was easiest to test with; 
>I might try to port it next week at LinuxExpo, if I can find a more 
>up-to-date test environment.
>
>Now, whether this is really a good idea, and whether it should go into 
>Etherboot, is a a completely different question. I leave that up to Ken.

I won't accept it for 5.0, it's too large a change.  I'll accept for 5.3
if you patch against 5.3.0 (5.1.10 is close enough) and remove all the
large buffers from the stack and of course it's #ifdefed so that there's
no cost for anybody not choosing to use TCP. There's only a 4kB stack
available.