From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Status of UNDI Support
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:42:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqwdujo7.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44129290.3000204@nic.fi> (Vesa Jääskeläinen's message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:04:16 +0200")
Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> writes:
> Marco Gerards wrote:
>> I prefer to support both. The etherboot drivers usually work better
>> than UNDI, AFAIK. But when etherboot does not support a card, people
>> can fall back to UNDI. Don't forget that not all cards support UNDI,
>> so I don't want UNDI only.
>
> I think the many driver manufactures has NDIS drivers. So I think
> supporting this option would be nice. Perhaps when the network driver
> interface has been specified (and I have all critical parts in video
> support done), I could check it out.
NDIS drivers are non-free software. We can't and will not support
this. It can't even be done unofficially, in that case it will be a
license violation, AFAIK.
And besides that, using non-free software is just not the right thing
to do.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-11 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 11:07 Status of UNDI Support Martin Vogt
2006-03-09 11:36 ` vincent guffens
2006-03-10 9:49 ` vincent guffens
2006-03-10 14:07 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-10 14:39 ` Martin Vogt
2006-03-10 21:48 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-10 15:45 ` Yedidyah Bar-David
2006-03-10 21:55 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-11 9:04 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2006-03-11 14:42 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2006-03-12 22:25 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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