From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FZwSa-00045R-Q2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:54:36 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZwSY-00043w-NJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:54:34 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FZwSU-00043J-Ro for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:54:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FZwSU-00043F-PC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:54:30 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FZwVv-0005HU-OM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:58:04 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A923C8BB467 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:15:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896073C8BB466 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:15:16 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:54:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <445388B5.1010601@imperial.ac.uk> <878xpoi1ez.fsf@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <878xpoi1ez.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604292254.29555.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.494680, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: netboot related projects X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:54:34 -0000 On Saturday 29 April 2006 22:15, Marco Gerards wrote: > vincent guffens writes: > > Hi Vincent, > > > I just wanted to let you know that I contacted the maintainer of > > Etherboot to inform him of my current attempt to port the etherboot > > drivers to grub2. > > Is he willing to cooperate with us so it will be easier to share code? > I think I once sent him an email about it... But I am not sure > anymore. :-) Honestly, I don't like to copy Etherboot's drivers to GRUB any longer. I=20 rather consider how to use the UNDI interface provided by Etherboot. When I= =20 worked on netboot in GRUB Legacy, Etherboot didn't support UNDI, so I had t= o=20 copy the drivers. According to him, the current Etherboot supports UNDI, so= =20 it should be feasible to use Etherboot's drivers via UNDI. I think the difficulty is the case where GRUB is not loaded by Etherboot, f= or=20 example, when GRUB boots from a disk directly. In this case, one way would = be=20 to hack Etherboot so that Etherboot can be invoked by GRUB and give the=20 control back to GRUB. =46rom the experience of GRUB Legacy, I know how painful to synchronize cod= e=20 with an external project, so I'd like to investigate this direction. Okuji