[syslinux] [Etherboot-developers] gPxe functionality in pxelinux

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

Apologies to Bryan for misspelling his name.  I hate it when people do
that in email :).

Stefan

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I will be happy with something that
>> works "as expected", even if that doesn't match the official spec.  It needs
>> to be small enough to be compiled in unconditionally as part of DNS [...]
> Sounds like the current patch meets the requirements.  In addition to
> myself, Brian Seitz has successfully tested the patch.
>
> Do you want Domain Name to be cached for consistency with the rest of
> the codebase?
>
> Brian: Does this sound good?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Thursday 27 November 2008 22:07:50 Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> Marty and Michael: do you have any preferences on this issue?  Perhaps
>>> we really do want to keep it minimal like hpa suggests to limit bloat?
>>>  There is no standard here anyway.
>>>
>>> A "qualifying DNS" resolver could be implemented as an optional gPXE
>>> resolver.  Stripped down builds would only compile in the existing
>>> "DNS" resolver, whereas full-featured builds would additionally
>>> compile in the "qualifying DNS" resolver.  The "qualifying DNS"
>>> resolver appends the local domain as appropriate and delegates to the
>>> existing "DNS" resolver (as a child resolver like the mux resolver
>>> code in core/resolv.c).
>>
>> I haven't looked at the patch, but I will be happy with something that
>> works "as expected", even if that doesn't match the official spec.  It needs
>> to be small enough to be compiled in unconditionally as part of DNS; I don't
>> really want this to be a separate feature.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>