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Re: Time to fork the netboot code?


From: Thierry Laronde
Subject: Re: Time to fork the netboot code?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:16:23 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:34:01PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: Chip Salzenberg <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Time to fork the netboot code?
> Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:40:29 -0700
> 
> > > "extra" feature anyway. So transition to a more powerful set of
> > > device drivers would be necessary.
> > 
> > Hm.  Has anyone started on this?
> 
> No, AFAIK. However, you cannot do this alone. It is necessary to
> implement real memory management and handle protected-mode interrupts
> and real-mode ones concurrently, using v86-mode. That is exactly the
> plan which should be done after 1.0 release.

For v86, I hope I will have time to do finally some job. At least, if we are
some GRUB interested people in Bordeaux for LSM (HURD and Debian Conference), 
we could try to use the meeting to produce some code...

Regards,
-- 
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org
PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http://www.pingoo.org



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