On 09/02/2010 06:38 AM, Manoel Rebelo Abraches wrote: > That branch is a bit outdated, I'll update id until next week at most. > We have so far the tftp protocol and a pseudo driver for open firmware. > It worked grate in our tests so far. Sounds interesting. > Though it is aimed only for > sequential transfer at the moment, I'll talk with vladimir next week > some about some changes I thought to make parallelism easier( but isn't > parallelism too much for a bootloader?). > Hardware drivers are always useful to be parallelisable even if we currently don't tak full advantage of it. A simple example is that of running console through network and in the same time downloading files. In this case you require 2 simultaneous transfers.
I've also found out that pxe driver is currently attached all wrong. In branch net I transformed it into a network protocol 'pxe' using interface 'pxe' on dummy card 'pxe'. With UNDI the 'pxe' card will become a card capable of sending and receiving packets. This pushed me to remove some overkill in previous templates. I hope that helps writing drivers. @Manoel: even if you just put your current work without cleaning it up it will already help. I can take care of integration. > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 21:31 +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > >> On 08/31/2010 09:05 PM, John Lumby wrote: >> First of all please avoid sending HTML-formatted mails to this list. >> >>> Anyone know if any work is being done on implementing a netboot >>> function into GRUB2 similar to what is available in GRUB1? I.e., >>> . supports current network hardware with self-contained drivers >>> . does not require PXE hardware >>> . does not require any other software >>> >>> >> This is useful functionality for e.g. OS recovery over internet, system >> where firmware supports netboot but provides only pretty unusable >> functions to bootloader or when GRUB itself is a firmware >> Manoelo Abranches is working on this feature: >> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/people/mrabran/grub_net/ . One of the >> tasks in my TODO list is to assess how much can be merged into 1.99. >> >>> I see this article in this forum talking about some plans >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-05/msg00058.html >>> >>> and this one more recently >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-01/msg00640.html >>> >>> - but they are all years ago ... >>> >>> Or - is there any kind of netboot functionality in GRUB2 or being >>> worked on by anyone? >>> >>> John Lumby >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Grub-devel mailing list >>> Grub-devel@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >>> >>> >> >> > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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