[syslinux] [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH] Activating FTP for gpxe on Syslinux 3.72-pre1

[Erwan]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Michael Brown wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 September 2008 17:21:08 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> Could we just activate FTP on gpxe ?
>>>> I did a trivial patch for enabling it on top of 3.72-pre1.
>>> I would prefer if the upstream default was changed, too, but I'm not
>>> adverse to changing it if the upstream doesn't want to.
>>
>> I don't have a strong feeling either way; I had assumed that nowadays 
>> ftp was something of a niche protocol, so left it disabled by default 
>> to save space.  I could be convinced otherwise.
>
> Erwan, thoughts?
On my side, I'm using gpxelinux to load linux distro's installer 
kernels/initrd.
My web provider (the 2nd bigger in France) is hosting one of the biggest 
mirror that is only available using ftp (ftp://ftp.free.fr).
In my use cases, http & ftp are some very common protocols (kernel.org 
offers both on the main page :p)

gPXElinux is 57K with FTP, if this is acceptable, I would love to have 
it ;o)

Erwan,