ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
Piotr Brostovski wrote:
I'm asking myself if it is possible that mkelfImage simply isn't compatible with current gPXE releases?
mkelfImage is strictly for Linux.
Upstream gPXE can not be built for coreboot, but here is a web page with some information that may still be useful:
I'm puzzled about that. Was gPXE derived from etherboot and, if so, why did they drop support?
Yes etherboot transformed into gpxe. To achieve their goals in gpxe it took something very similar to a complete rewrite. Sort of like the linuxbios v1 to linuxbios v2 transition.
If not, how bad does it look to add coreboot support the way Eric added it for etherboot?
There are two ways this is interesting.
1) Integrate SeaBIOS and gpxe. Which will nicely add pxe booting support to SeaBIOS in the ``BIOS'' way. This should be almost trivial as this is the mode gpxe is designed to be run in.
2) As a pure linuxBIOS payload that will work on multiple architectures. If we care about non-x86 non-SEABIOS there are the patches that were listed, and you can find where the linuxBIOS support was removed in the repository so anyone who wants a start can see what the code used to look like.
Eric