[syslinux] Now available for testing: lwIP for PXELINUX

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/22/2011 05:08 AM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> 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.
> 

Which version of Bochs is that, and what network boot stack does it use?
 I can imagine this having serious problems with pre-gPXE Etherboot.  It
would be good to get a test case so we can perhaps find a mitigation
strategy.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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