On 17.05.2011 13:43, Manoel Rebelo Abranches wrote:
> I'm working in a NET branch
> (http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/branches/net/) and have submitted
> some patches for network booting using tftp protocol and Open Firmware
> as the card driver (the implementation is sufficiently generic to
> utilize usual card drivers). This has been tested in P5, P6 and P7.
>
I've fixed several bugs in it and repushed to the same location.
> Although these patches were still not reviewed they have some great
> advantages when compared with yaboot:
>
>
> 1 - We can set larger block sizes (and then get larger files), a
> limitation in some firmware versions.
> 2 - Less memory usage. In yaboot the file is all downloaded in a
> buffer before is efectivelly used. Due to some file abstractions the
> file is nearly doubled in memory. In GRUB we free the memory used by
> the packets already read,then much less memory is necessary (useful in
> some big INITRD files).
> 3 - Better user interface.
>
>
> This version is already very stable and I did many tests and fixed
> some bugs (in our lab there are some people already using it instead
> of yaboot)
> We still have to add support for PXE using UNDI. If someone would like
> to help in this regard, I will try to look at it in the near future.
>
> Some things that still have to be done:
>
>
> 1 - Support for PXE.
> 2 - Support for ipv6.
> 3 - Other protocols beside TFTP, like DHCP and TCP based protocols.
>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko