[gPXE] etherboot and WDS

[Marty Connor]

James wrote on 1/15/10 12:53 PM:
> Sorry, I thought this was a straight forward question for a well known
> (by the developers) problem.

James,

Thanks very much for giving the additional information you gave.

For the last several years we have focused most of our development 
energy on gPXE as the successor to Etherboot.

We made this choice based on where we believed we could best apply our 
development resources.

gPXE is rapidly being adopted because of its feature-set, stability, and 
compatibility.

We have no current plans to make significant updates to Etherboot.  If 
someone wants to fund us, or someone offers a patch that makes sense, we 
may apply it, but we really want people to migrate to gPXE.

In the last year or two we have seen quite a few projects begin to use 
gPXE instead of Etherboot, and we expect this trend to accelerate.  I'm 
sure the good people of Red Hat are moving in that direction.

I can imagine this is not really what you wanted to hear, but it is what 
it is.  We choose to focus our valuable development energy on gPXE, and 
will make it as attractive an upgrade option as possible.

Perhaps someone will want to help you hack on this.  FOSS has the beauty 
of allowing folks who are sufficiently motivated to figure out almost 
anything.  Perhaps there is another way to attack this problem by 
chainloading gPXE or gpxelinux.0.  Let's see what people think.

I hope at least that this message gives you a better understanding of 
how things are from our end.

Regards,

Marty