[syslinux] Remove gpxe or replace with ipxe?

Schlomo Schapiro schlomo at schapiro.org
Wed Oct 9 04:50:19 PDT 2013


For me the motivation for gpxelinux.0 was the HTTP support. If this would
work reliably in newer versions then I could happily live without a
iPXE-based pxelinux.


On 9 October 2013 13:36, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:

> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
>
> > The gPXE in the Syslinux tree is ridiculously old.  We could either
> > replace it with iPXE or just drop it, giving people a recipe for how to
> > integrate with iPXE themselves.
> >
> > What do people think?
>
> Do you mean a recipe for creating [gi]pxelinux.0 or for deploying iPXE
> and using pxelinux on top of that?  Is there any technical difference?
> If not, the latter would lead to a cleaner situation, I guess.
> On the other hand, I don't use PXE too much these days.
> --
> Regards,
> Feri.
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