[syslinux] Custom .c32 module which can send tcp or udp packets

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> But USB emulated hard/floppy "disks" are becoming very common in
> modern BIOSes!  Why not use them?  Ask for a starting LBA and a sector
> count or scan for a special pattern created by a utility, and write
> there.  Inefficient, but file system agnostic.  And maybe simple
> enough to include in all variants.  At the same time, it risks real
> data again.

Well, this kind of stuff is doable... although in general they are only
present in the BIOS if used to boot from.  That being said, writing a
simple USB stack plus a FAT filesystem driver isn't *all* that hard to
do; I believe the gPXE people have already done a fair bit of work to a
USB stack.

	-hpa

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