From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1QN3TY-0005JM-SP for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 09:41:16 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN3TW-0005IX-A1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 09:41:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN3TV-00007A-6y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 09:41:14 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:51044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QN3TV-000075-2c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 09:41:13 -0400 Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so2398515wwb.30 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 06:41:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=DYR1jJTXjRZepyPlW2oFuinp4gZjlIFX23VQnxPVvYk=; b=FXimp85ICxJiVInj3IgfmBvE/BeWW8sHkzvTRCQuAWL6ZEhqyV51Ksha5t/BItUcRd 0RmblwSrW9HW6fSI8U/s2Loa2dennBDGe/BBb0jas8biA8RoQVH8zw1bI2RYKKveM4UF 7r1H/jaGvhw9V5tu2jOe4dFo+n9lgoMNXkShc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=BXrJi0qcC+IGz1XbDmRrhEfUy2EsBwCmab75BYBMWUVe34bmxoDIaJuEWAsPL05VJ+ fcgWc7j3+tuhuDkW30oCc60dIYG9hKa38UuoyS4IXBZH05+GNuJkY8rfX7zc5vRWlUgT 3DNXB1IJNwPCDZ+775hnqjrNDtWKIf0+F1lvY= Received: by 10.227.198.199 with SMTP id ep7mr3136063wbb.40.1305812453771; Thu, 19 May 2011 06:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (gprs47.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h11sm1627883wbc.26.2011.05.19.06.40.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 19 May 2011 06:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DD51DE1.4010601@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 15:40:49 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110402 Iceowl/1.0b2 Icedove/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Network branch References: <4DD25F63.3070007@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD25F63.3070007@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC1E471628268E08881DA8D41" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 13:41:15 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC1E471628268E08881DA8D41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigC1E471628268E08881DA8D41 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk3VHeEACgkQNak7dOguQgk+JQD/UBi8p1Qh2OxIhdVo1HZlJUl7 iWSX5QCzL9PhSWUas7cA/3nKZp0dC+z19ows3bcFnFH52Crjx09kunmSC+C8sQNk =gGpi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC1E471628268E08881DA8D41--