27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
3:45 p.m.
On 27 Apr 2004, Peter Lister wrote:
My suggestion is to consider managing FILO as part of the Etherboot tree
- Etherboot already has an IDE disk driver, which predates FILO, IIRC.
The two projects are obvious complements. Also, I'd bet that an integrated set of net / disk / flash device services would play much better for integration with other projects like grub2.
There is enough appeal to the simplicity of FILO that we're not as interested (here anyway) in the etherboot integration. FILO is a small simple loader that does what it does well; Etherboot is a whole lot more complex. That does not mean I think merging it in is bad, but I also would like to see it maintain its seperate existence.
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