On 08/ 8/14 03:27 PM, Gary Mills via illumos-developer wrote:
All of those things called wanboot will be retained. The only thing that will disappear is the single stand-alone SPARC executable that is the first file sent to a SPARC machine when it's doing a network boot.
Can wanboot be shipped and compiled separately from illumos?Because, if one wants to remove/disable advanced functionality from OS/Kernel and replace it with something less advanced , Procedure to maintain and use it should be described in the process.
To translate into real life language, as I understand (correct me): Users won't be able to boot SPARC from x86 server over lan or wan (?) , SPARC server won't be able to boot SPARC over wanAI installs will stop working (?) (main way to massively deploy illumos installs/versus S11 licencing) One would need to ship also separate boot server to deploying location and jump around it when shipping other servers to a customers, if booting over LAN and 'https is not needed' in 2014..(?) as well as signed boot images (and a little bit more bashing of Sparc)
As I understood, wanboot is actually more advanced way of booting from network and allows you to ship hardware to a customer on the other side of the world, letting it call back securely over internet to boot and make you setup machine the way you want to particular customer remotely. If it is removed, technician needs to travel to the customer location instead of sitting where he is, managing newly shipped servers. Isn't that big waste of time and money and in some cases, new customers? (that does not want to pay additional expanses of new server implementation)
And can removed parts be separated somewhere where they could sit with description how to compile and use them if needed, instead of torching them?
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