Re: Time to fork the netboot code?

[Mario Klebsch]

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On Thursday, 10. May 2001 15:47, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: Mario Klebsch <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Time to fork the netboot code?
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:14:54 +0200
>
> > OTOH, tghe drivers for booting have to be simple.
>
> Why "have to"? There is no reason that drivers must be simple.

I am sorry, I should have written 'should be simple'.

> > [common driver source] But this would at least require, that both
> > driver flavours are maintained by the same set of people. If not,
> > we will face the same problem, that we have today, with the
> > etherboot drivers.
>
> I disagree. Most problems we faced are that Etherboot drivers don't
> work at all with several NICs and that they don't work well with
> multiple NICs.

Isn't it the same problem? The developer of our driver does not regard
our requirements (at least not that much, that we are satisfied).

> It's not hard to just incorporate drivers from another
> software package, in my experience with GNU Mach.

Do we want to incorporate drives from another software package, or do
we want common drivers with another software package?

If we incorporate drivers freom etherboot, we should have no problems
to fix teir flaws, shouldn't we?

> > So my suggestion would be to define a 'non-OS' network driver API,
> > which is usable for all bootstrap projects, agree with these
> > projects upon this API and then convert the existing drivers to the
> > new API.
>
> I bet that this never be realistic. As long as I see, Key Yap has no
> interest in GRUB, and I feel even that he might assume that GRUB is a
> competitor.

Unfortunately, I cannot disagree on this point.

73, Mario
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