Dne 5.11.2010 00:54, ron minnich napsal(a):
someone I know from a Big telecom company just pushed an interesting idea on me.
If coreboot+seabios would provide a bios service for serial console over enet, it would improve their life a lot. They could stop building cyclades boxes into their racks, and stop worrying about which mainboards had serial ports. I know that coreboot can now do console over enet; would be neat if seabios could provide a path for payloads to use it.
What about to write add-on to gPXE? Some simple handler for int10/int16 call sitting on it would certainly help (it can do DHCP/BOOT to get idea about GW)
I think they must have ARP there too. So the only part which is really missing is just the handler for the BIOS.
I think the current coreboot ethernet console has some issues if it is not on bus0. I guess I could change that a bit to provide ramstage support if this is the case.
Thanks, Rudolf