[Etherboot-developers] A few random thoughts....

[<ebi...@ln...>]

- Talking to some BIOS developers it became clear that if they had
  a good alternative to the current situation they would change.

  So there is a very practical case to implementing PXE support.

- On the other side of things I have a solution for very high powered
  bootloaders.  The linux kexec system call.  And I am debating with
  myself with how I should bring this out as a usable piece of code.
  Especially since I have places where I can use it that are still
  in ROM firmware.

  For a disk based bootloader I can do some very awesome things.  Like
  a CD or even a floppy that will enable a network boot off of any driver
  in the Linux kernel.

  So I have two questions...
  1) Would it make any sense to port etherboot to the Linux kernel
     because of it's tiny udp/ip stack.  For my space constrained
     situations.

  2) How do I keep from competing two strongly with etherboot if I
     unveil the all singing all dancing bootloader base on the Linux
     kernel?

Eric