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

[Bryan Seitz]

It certainly did work as expected!  Well done Stefan!

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:56:09PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi 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
> >

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Bryan G. Seitz