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Re: Status of UNDI Support
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: Status of UNDI Support |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:42:48 +0100 |
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Vesa Jääskeläinen <address@hidden> writes:
> Marco Gerards wrote:
>> I prefer to support both. The etherboot drivers usually work better
>> than UNDI, AFAIK. But when etherboot does not support a card, people
>> can fall back to UNDI. Don't forget that not all cards support UNDI,
>> so I don't want UNDI only.
>
> I think the many driver manufactures has NDIS drivers. So I think
> supporting this option would be nice. Perhaps when the network driver
> interface has been specified (and I have all critical parts in video
> support done), I could check it out.
NDIS drivers are non-free software. We can't and will not support
this. It can't even be done unofficially, in that case it will be a
license violation, AFAIK.
And besides that, using non-free software is just not the right thing
to do.
--
Marco