[syslinux] uEFI and IPv6 support

[Christopher D Haakinson]

Sounds good, thanks. If there is someway I could help beta test either part
I would be more than happy to.



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  |"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>                                                                                                               |
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  |syslinux at zytor.com                                                                                                                             |
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  |03/14/2011 04:41 PM                                                                                                                            |
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  |Re: [syslinux] uEFI and IPv6 support                                                                                                           |
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On 03/14/2011 12:02 PM, Christopher D Haakinson wrote:
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> Hi, I need two questions answered:
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> 1) When will PXELINUX have uEFI support?
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Hopefully later this year or early next.

> 2) With uEFI support comes IPv6 PXE support. Our latest IBM System X
boxes
> all have IPv6 EFI-based PXE code ready to go, however the syslinux
> community seems to be very behind on uEFI and IPv6 integration for
> PXELINUX. Will PXELINUX ever support IPv6 from a uEFI network boot?

Well, since BIOS PXE doesn't have IPv6 EFI support is a precondition, so
it will be done as part of the above enabling.

		 -hpa

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