[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] Export iPXE download protocols to chain loaded EFI binaries

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/15/2012 01:57 PM, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com
> <mailto:hpa at zytor.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 02/13/2012 07:01 AM, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
>     > In my tests, the patch with better error handling seems to work
>     without
>     > a problem.
>     >
>     > My modified elilo and esxi5 bootloader both made it through boot with
>     > command line arguments intact and everything.
> 
>     Is this new stuff things worth trying to push into the EFI standard?
> 
>            -hpa
> 
> I certainly wouldn't mind it being done if someone has the means.  tftp
> being the only protocol in town is pretty asinine.
> 

I know the UEFI committee is working on standardizing other protocols,
if they haven't already.  Let me ping them.

	-hpa