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

[Jarrod Johnson]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> 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
>

Let me know if there is an interesting conversation I could join.

Since we are talking UEFI, do you mean UEFI protocols that may have no
relationship with networking, or network protocols specifically?
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