Hi, I’m working on moving the latest Intel E1000 driver from etherboot-5.3. 3 to current grub. Must say it’s a hard work:(, Etherboot has changed its netboot files so much while grub still use the ones in 5.0.5. So, if someone wants to do some 'transport' work, he must handle these new features in his driver ---- which will cause lots of redundancy in code.
And what should we do now? I mean we can rewrite the files in 'netboot/' to do an update with the latest etherboot version ---- that will ease our future work in supporting new network cards. Or, we can make a 'translation' layer in 'netboot/' to support new drivers ---- that will decrease the work of rewriting. Or we still keep the current status and let the driver writer to do this? Has anybody working on any of these works? If yes, I can do some help. Thank you. Feng Shuo Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:(86)10-62659372ext1003 Fax:(86)10-62657255 Postcode:100080 National Engineering Centre for High Performance Computer Institute of Computing Technology，Chinese Academy of Sciences 6,Kexueyuan Road South, Haidian District, Beijing,China _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
