On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 01:19:13PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 01.06.2010 07:17, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > please consider using the newly introduced etherboot-qemu package to provide > > PXE capable boot roms, rather than shipping copies of etherboot roms > > included > > into the qemu-kvm package at build time. this makes it hard to track down > > the > > sources that the etherboot roms were generated with, amoung other issues. > What is interesting is that the pxe roms provided with > the original upstream sources behaves differently from > the ones in etherboot.
i believe upstream ships gPXE roms in recent versions (at least, if qemu-kvm is following qemu). we will hopefully have uploaded gPXE to NEW before the end of debcconf. > But I wonder what is the difference between the > original etherboot and this stripped-down etherboot-qemu. > I see two points: etherboot-qemu is a subset of > full etherboot (but it is still a separate package), > and etherboot-qemu does not compress the boot roms. correct. to be clear, the etherboot roms are identical to the corresponding compressed roms shipped in the full package. > The latter can be dealt with in the qemu, i think - by uncompressing them > automatically on the fly, it should be easy to implement. nobody has proposed patches to qemu or qemu-kvm to handle that, as far as i know. > So.. Is there a good reason to introduce this stripped-down version? etherboot-qemu is already in the archive, so it has already been introduced. depending on etherboot-qemu works better than shipping whatever roms happen to be in the etherboot package at qemu-kvm build time, which is the current state. it honestly seems a simpler approach to me to have a package that ships a smaller number of uncompressed roms than patching qemu/qemu-kvm to support compressed roms and is *trivial* to implement given that etherboot-qemu is already in the archive. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
