From: Michael Hohmuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GRUB Ethernet drivers (was Re: PXE support?)
Date: 24 Nov 1999 16:45:47 +0100
> need to support a few more NICs. You mentioned earlier that adding
> support for ``GRUB extensions'' or ``GRUB executables'' is a
> precondition for new work on the netboot support, so I suggest you
> first work on this precondition to give other people a chance to care
> about the rest. :-)
Perhaps you are right, but I want to work on netboot itself first,
since that is only an interesting part. :-p
(If they pay me for my work on GRUB, I may do a boring thing, but, for
now, I'm working just because that's interesting. Sorry.)
> Also, I wonder why people still work on ``converting Linux drivers''
> when a framework doing all this is already available -- see the OSKit
> at <URL:http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/>.
There are some reasons that I don't want to use OSKit for GRUB. An
example is that the Linux drivers in OSKit is rather old and they
don't support all of the ethernet drivers in Linux. The reason for the
latter can be explained by the fact that they have little modified
Shantanu Goel's original code. IMO, they should have waited for my
improvements in the Linux emulation for Mach. ;-)
So I don't expect that they will update or improve the Linux drivers
support, and I think it is easier to use the Linux code directly than
to help the development of OSKit, since netboot is so simple.
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