[syslinux] Now available for testing: lwIP for PXELINUX

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 07:00:38 PDT 2011


On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 00:40, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> 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.

Is the intention that this replace gpxe/gpxelinux*.0 for the most
part?  It seems that client-side scripting (LUA is present but the
last I checked it seemed more of a WIP), SAN protocols and HTTPS will
be the only things missing shortly.

-- 
-Gene




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