Re: Time to fork the netboot code?

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Chip Salzenberg <address@hidden>
Subject: Time to fork the netboot code?
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 18:23:11 -0700

> Sadly, though I've tried to share this code, nobody wants it.  The
> Netboot project doesn't care about such a feature, since netboot's
> code is designed to be flashed into NIC ROMs; and if you can do that,
> then you obviously are going to plug your cable into the NIC with the
> special ROM, so searching is unimportant.  Meanwhile, the GRUB project
> doesn't want to keep modified versions of files that come from the
> Netboot project.

s/Netboot/Etherboot/

> Result: Nobody else gets my neat feature.  *sigh*

Have you seen my message:

<URL:http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg03333.html>

I don't think it is a good thing to use Etherboot drivers as is or
maintain our own version of "Etherboot drivers". As you said,
Etherboot drivers have defects (for us), but IMO, it is NOT feasible
to maintain ethernet drivers by ourselves, considerring that we are a
small community, and the netboot feature of GRUB is an "extra" feature
anyway. So transition to a more powerful set of device drivers would
be necessary.

Okuji