[syslinux] Now available for testing: lwIP for PXELINUX

[Sebastian Herbszt]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Eric Biederman has taken the work I did almost two years ago to port
> lwIP to Syslinux, and actually gotten it to the point where it is
> integrated into the filesystem stack and *working*.
> 
> As such, I have pushed out a new branch "lwip" to the git repository,
> for testing purposes, and I have made a 4.10-pre1 prerelease which
> includes this code.
> 
> I don't think it is ready for prime time yet, but I would be *very*
> interested in hearing people's experiences with it.  It currently
> supports tftp and http; we will probably be adding ftp shortly.
> 
> -hpa

TFTP transfers seem to be way slower with syslinux-4.10-pre1-1-gf5203bf
compared to syslinux-4.04-8-gece69c7 on Bochs. Used to be ~10 seconds
for 3.8 MB and now it's 2 minutes and 33 seconds.

Sebastian