From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FI5Iz-0004zv-BA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:42:53 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FI5Ix-0004zB-Vn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:42:52 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FI5Iv-0004y7-PK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:42:51 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FI5Iv-0004y2-LD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:42:49 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.31] (helo=smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FI5MS-00089W-MS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:46:28 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2BEglfZ004019 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:42:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <44100C67.6000402@itwm.fraunhofer.de> <878xriwfyv.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20060310154510.GA11141@soul.cs.tau.ac.il> <87slpqt169.fsf@xs4all.nl> <44129290.3000204@nic.fi> From: Marco Gerards Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:42:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <44129290.3000204@nic.fi> (Vesa =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E4=E4skel=E4?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?inen's?= message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:04:16 +0200") Message-ID: <87bqwdujo7.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: Status of UNDI Support 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, 11 Mar 2006 14:42:52 -0000 Vesa J=E4=E4skel=E4inen 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