The reason for put filo in etherboot. 1. It can let boot from HD or net according to CMOS setting. 2. Etherboot can produce zelf. We may got more space to put other stuff such as USB support... 3. Etherboot structure and support...
I may check if filo.zlef only include FILO ..., even it is not, we still can make it clean.
Regards
YH
-----Original Message----- From: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie@lanl.gov] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:49 AM To: YhLu Cc: Ronald G. Minnich; LinuxBIOS Subject: RE: FILO fixups
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:47, YhLu wrote:
You can get filo only under Etherboot.
make bin/filo.zelf
or
make bin/tg3--filo.zelf
Also I added something into the filo in Etherboot.
Does it contain anything about Etherboot ? I just want FILO !!!
Ollie
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, YhLu wrote:
- It can let boot from HD or net according to CMOS setting.
only useful if your ethernet is hooked up. 15/16 of our nodes here have no ethernet.
- Etherboot can produce zelf. We may got more space to put other stuff such
as USB support...
not that important to us.
- Etherboot structure and support...
not clear at the moment if this is a plus or minus. Seeing that it has trouble building under certain tool chains, there still seem to be problems with it.
I may check if filo.zlef only include FILO ..., even it is not, we still can make it clean.
We still need to add my performance improvements.
ron
* Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [041101 20:56]:
- Etherboot can produce zelf. We may got more space to put other stuff such
as USB support...
not that important to us.
That's something that would be very interesting for OpenBIOS. It seems this is not that easy without etherboot's pregenerated elf headers though. Is there any documentation available about what zelf should have?
As an alternative, the LinuxBIOS (elf) loader could offer to load nrv2b compressed files... opinions?
Stefan
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 12:00, YhLu wrote:
The reason for put filo in etherboot.
- It can let boot from HD or net according to CMOS setting.
- Etherboot can produce zelf. We may got more space to put other stuff such
as USB support... 3. Etherboot structure and support...
I may check if filo.zlef only include FILO ..., even it is not, we still can make it clean.
You have the same blind spot as Eric. For many people, boot over net is irrelevant. Why do they need to live with the overhead of network protocol stack and driver if all they want to to boot form some mass storage device ?
Ollie
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