On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 10:27 -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > Mark Phalan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently discovered that Wan Boot is being used for AI installs on > > SPARC. > > Correct. > > > Is the current plan use Wan Boot going forward or will it be replaced by > > something else (something x86 can also support)? > > x86 network installs currently use PXE and pxegrub, so it works somewhat > differently at the boot phase, but once the root file system is > downloaded (via tftp in the x86 case right now), they are similar. > > > Who maintains Wan Boot in ON? > > > > Networking is nominally responsible for it.
Thanks. We're about to move OpenSSL from ON to SFW and are essentially leaving a private copy of OpenSSL in ON for Wan Boot to use. We'd like to remove this fork sometime in the future but it's relatively complicated. Working with someone who knows how Wan Boot is supposed to work etc would be useful. -M
