PXE stack on bootrom [Was: Re: [syslinux] pxelinux fron Floppy disk?]

[Martijn Bakker]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:59:49PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> PXELINUX requires PXE.  It can't function without it.  I would really
> love to see an open source *PXE* stack that could be burned into ROM or
> booted from a floppy, and although there has been some work on it
> (http://www.nilo.org/) I don't think it's practically usable.

If I understood well, there is a spec of the protocol. And it seems logical
that there are specs of how to build such an image, because it's already done
(correct me if I'm mistaking). Is there some special machine code the roms
have to be in, or is it just plain old i386 ? It sounds like a nice project
to freshen my (reduced-to-zero) ASM knowledge, and if it's not i386 then
still it sounds pretty nice. 

Do you have more info about that ?

Another thing: _if_ I will do this (it's definitly not sure I will) I'd like
to have some hardware sponsored for testing (not really big stuff, just a nice
flasheable nic or so). I saw some big(ger) names passing this list, so I'm
sure something can be arranged or so. *this is just an early request to see
if there's animo for this. it's not nessecary, but it would be nice*

grtz, Tijn

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