From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 3 12:28:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEF4150F0 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA41826; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:27:32 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199911031909.LAA06730@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199911031909.LAA06730@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:28:53 -0500 To: Mike Smith , Matthew Dillon From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Network booting, I'm off to work (was Re: GENERIC build broken) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:09 AM -0800 11/3/99, Mike Smith wrote: >I can either spend more time trying to deal with what I see >as FUD, or actually do the work, and I'm picking the latter. > >[...snip...]. We need to keep ourselves focussed on where we're >going, and right now, in this context, it means that we need >to look at doing PXE on i386 properly. I believe this work will be valuable, and look forward to it. Some of this discussion will be easier once we have an actual implementation in front of us. I do appreciate the advance notice though, as we (some of us here at RPI) will be buying some new intel-ish machines soon, and networking booting is a going to be a topic of keen interest on those machines. If proper support for PXE will be coming to FreeBSD, then we'll be sure to keep that in mind with this new hardware that we are going to be buying anyway. FreeBSD can worry about ripping out other older options (such as bootp in the kernel) after we have the new options in place. Once everyone can actually test the new options, then we can have a productive discussion as to whether the old options should go. I personally have no idea whether they should or should not go, I'm just hoping we can defer that debate until after we have alternatives (including PXE support) ready. Note that I am assuming that the new PXE support will not *REQUIRE* that any old support be ripped out, and thus we do not need to debate the second question at this time. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message