====== Michael Decker: Driver Development ======

===== Notes =====

==== Build Environment ==== 
Consists of three machines: A target client, a development server, and a desktop. //Last update: August 18, 2008//

  * Test client - This machine tests gPXE
    * Custom desktop PC: 2 GHz Core2 / 2 GiB RAM
    * A test NIC installed, with many on stand-by.
    * No hard-disk, only PXE installed in on-board NIC.
  * Desktop - I write code here
    * Custom desktop PC: 1.8 GHz Core2 / 2 GiB RAM
    * Windows XP Pro x64
    * [[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/|putty]] 0.60
    * [[http://www.codeblocks.org/|Code::Blocks IDE]] or MSVC 2005 (depending on my needs) w/ samba file access
    * Winamp for tunes ;)
  * Development server - Source tree built here{{ :soc:2008:mdeck:server.jpg}}
    * Laptop: 1.5 GHz Pentium-M / 512 MiB RAM
    * Ubuntu 8.04 w/ 2.6.24-16.30 kernel
    * gcc 4.2.3-2ubuntu7
    * libc6-dev 2.7-10ubuntu3
    * mtools 3.9.11-0ubuntu1
    * syslinux 2:3.53-1ubuntu2
    * gitk 1:1.5.4.3-1ubuntu2
    * vblade 14-1ubuntu1
    * dhcp3-server 3.0.6.dfsg-1ubuntu9
    * tftpd-hpa 0.48-1ubuntu1
    * apache2 2.2.8-1
    * iscsitarget 0.4.15-5ubuntu2
    * wireshark 1.0.0-1

==== Reference Links ====

  * [[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/etherboot/appinfo.html?csaid=607289E796D6ABA3|GSoC Application Information]]
  * [[dev:netdriverapi|Deprecated Etherboot Network Driver API Documentation]]
  * [[soc:2008:mdeck:notes:gpxe_driver_api|gPXE Network Driver API Documentation]]