Re: grub is stuck with an on-board eepro100

[erich]

Yedidyah Bar-David <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:50:44AM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > At Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:36:39 +0200,
> > Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > > Of course it's desirable, but is it possible? I don't really know grub,
> > > but isn't the fact that it's written in C, in 32bit, means it would be
> > > difficult to call 16 bit APIs? I downloaded the PXE specs, and looked
> > > at the pxelinux source (all asm), and don't really know what to do.
> > > E.g., how do I write an function in asm that is callable from C?
> > 
> > Please take a look at stage2/asm.S, for example. GRUB can switch
> > between real mode and protected mode. Also, note that PXE has an
> > interface for protected mode as well.
> 
> I will look at that.

I also have a board with eepro100's with PXE support on it I was going
to try out, with an eye to adding a PXE driver directly to GRUB (been
looking over the spec, and it doesn't seem very hard).

The biggest thing that has been stopping me right now is lethargy in
setting up a PXE server.

If you're going to make a serious attempt at it, though, I'll just
happily help test your code.  ;-)

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