Re: GRUB plans...

[Christoph Plattner]

Further issues:

Network stuff in GRUB:

I am a little bit sad about the fact, that the Release 1.0
will have so many problems in the ethernet drivers. I know
there are plans to use other OS NIC drivers (although in
my oppinion the polling drivers are perfect suitable for 
this job), but we should think about the release 1.0.

For the release we should really think of a method to
able to copy in always the current status of the NIC
drivers of the etherboot project. For this we can create
for example a `netboot/drivers' directory. The other 
netboot stuff like maic.c and so can stay stable in the
GRUB source tree. Only the drivers and may be PCI stuff
(aas they want to create more common routines for - for
example - enabling bus master, etc....)

In the GRUB netboot environment only the iterface has to
be rechecked to have for example an easy timer support
(can also be a polling routineon the hardware timer), etc..

Are you interested in such plans to have quite hopefully
good working NIC driver versions until GRUB will get a new
NIC stuff.

I can imagine (dependent on my spare time) that I can help
here (I can propably do that stuff).

With friendly regards
        Christoph Plattner



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