snponly.efi doesn't really add anything currently. Some time ago, I sent around 
a patch that would allow other EFI applications to use gPXE's network stack and 
all of the protocols it supports. However, the patch was never integrated, and 
the elilo side of the code was never written.

Your idea of bundling the kernel/initrd/elilo into a single EFI app sounds 
neat. It's basically an mknbi command for EFI. I don't believe that anyone has 
actually implemented something like this, though.

Geoff


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Would snponly.efi add anything versus booting elilo directly?  e.g., even if I 
use snponly.efi, won't elilo tftp down the kernel/initrd, or is there some way 
to bundle a kernel/initrd/elilo into a single efi, or have elilo use enhanced 
protocol while running under gPXE a la pxelinux?
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
No, but you can use ELILO as an intermediary.

Josh
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