From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Daniel Rodrick <daniel.rodrick@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>,
kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Univeral Protocol Driver (using UNDI) in Linux
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:35:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D8BD51.8040206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <292693080608072213n2be75176g46199e92d669f5de@mail.gmail.com>
Daniel Rodrick wrote:
>
> Hi ... so there seem to be no technical feasibily issues, just
> reliabliy / ugly design issues? So one can still go ahead and write a
> Universal Protocol Driver that can work with all (PXE compatible)
> NICs?
>
For some definition of "all" = meaning "it might work on some of them."
> Are there any issues related to real mode / protected mode?
Yes, a whole bunch of PXE/UNDI stacks are broken in protected mode.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-08 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-07 10:39 Univeral Protocol Driver (using UNDI) in Linux Daniel Rodrick
2006-08-07 15:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-07 16:11 ` Daniel Rodrick
2006-08-07 16:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-08 5:13 ` Daniel Rodrick
2006-08-08 15:04 ` Alan Shieh
2006-08-10 8:18 ` Daniel Rodrick
2006-08-11 20:01 ` Alan Shieh
2006-08-10 20:59 ` Donald Becker
2006-08-10 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-11 20:48 ` Alan Shieh
2006-08-08 16:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-07 18:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-07 18:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2006-09-28 9:59 Deepak Gupta
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