Re: PXEgrub development on grub2

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:17:56PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote:
>
>>> It sounds good. Looks like gPXE should work on EFI.
>>>
>>> I will try to build an image.
>>>
>>
>> Though that doestn't change that pxe.mod is currently only build for
>> i386-pc and nothing else
>
>  Does anyone have any patches that enable PXE on EFI-firmware-based systems?

What we need is firmware-independant support.  I can live with the PXE-on-BIOS
hack if it's useful, but what we're supposed to have is a driver framework like
the one in GRUB Legacy, not a stub for each firmware type.

Reliing on firmware is problematic, because it's usually proprietary and buggy,
we shouldn't do it if it can be avoided.

-- 
Robert Millan

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