Re: [Netboot-developers] support for Intel 82544

[Gero K. <ge...@gk...>]

Hello,

Am Freitag, den 03.06.2005, 15:41 -0700 schrieb Abhijit Rao:
> Can I use Netboot to load QNX 6.3? This is perhaps more a User
> mailing-list question - I hope it is OK to ask it here.

There has once been a user who made it possible to boot QNX through
netboot, but that's a very long time ago. I don't think that I can find
the files anymore. Since QNX is not that widely used, and I don't use
QNX myself either, there is currently no support for it. I would be
happy
to add support for it, though, but I do need a valid license for QNX in
that case.

> When you wrote - "If you want to write a direct driver for netboot ",
> I guess you meant adding Native support for 82544 into this true
> netboot (and not the netboot subdirectory in GRUB).

Yes. The netboot driver model is modular. Currently, netboot uses
an internal DOS emulator to directly use DOS driver executables
(namely packet drivers and NDIS2 drivers). It is possible to also
write native drivers for netboot, and there is all required support
for it in the netboot source tree already, but due to limited time
no native driver has been implemented as of yet. I will get into
this as soon as version 0.10 has been finally released.

gero.

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