Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? Message-ID: <200006152306.QAA23807@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006151526070.268-100000@clockwork.csudsu.com> from Stefan Molnar at "Jun 15, 2000 03:31:37 pm"
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> The best people to determin if it is nessesary is Yahoo and Hotmail. > Since they have worked with these issues in the thousands of machines. Actually, Yahoo is basically who funded the PXE development as their employees did most of the development and testing with PXE and now use it in production, IIRC. > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stefan Molnar wrote: > > > > > Why? PXE will allow net installs, or diskless. And Serial Console > > > is already supported. ( On some high end machines serial console works > > > in the prom as well). > > > > well, now you see why i'm not pushing linuxbios too hard in the freebsd > > world. If you think PXE and serial consoles fix your cluster problems, > > then you haven't build anything really big. PXE is not a good design. > > But I'm not interested in arguing ... PXE is simply a layer over the network card, it's not ACPI or EFI. > > ron -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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