ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: >> Piotr Brostovski wrote: >>> I'm asking myself if it is possible that mkelfImage simply isn't >>> compatible with current gPXE releases? >> >> mkelfImage is strictly for Linux. >> >> Upstream gPXE can not be built for coreboot, but here is a web page >> with some information that may still be useful: >> > > I'm puzzled about that. Was gPXE derived from etherboot and, if so, > why did they drop support?
Yes etherboot transformed into gpxe. To achieve their goals in gpxe it took something very similar to a complete rewrite. Sort of like the linuxbios v1 to linuxbios v2 transition. > If not, how bad does it look to add coreboot support the way Eric > added it for etherboot? There are two ways this is interesting. 1) Integrate SeaBIOS and gpxe. Which will nicely add pxe booting support to SeaBIOS in the ``BIOS'' way. This should be almost trivial as this is the mode gpxe is designed to be run in. 2) As a pure linuxBIOS payload that will work on multiple architectures. If we care about non-x86 non-SEABIOS there are the patches that were listed, and you can find where the linuxBIOS support was removed in the repository so anyone who wants a start can see what the code used to look like. Eric -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
