http://etherboot.org/wiki/ 2026-04-20T13:01:24-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/ http://etherboot.org/wiki/lib/tpl/monobook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-05-10T01:25:26-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2006/alanshieh/oldundiproposal?rev=1210407926&do=diff = Deliverables and expected timeline = The initial target platform will be VMware, which provides e1000 and vlance emulated NICs, which support PXE. The architecture for the UNDI driver will be divided into two portions: a userspace program for executing the UNDI code, which passes packets to and from an in-kernel component. Based on my understanding of the Etherboot code and (non-functional) Grub UNDI driver, UNDI is typically implemented as real-mode code. The natural way to execute the rea… text/html 2008-05-10T01:24:51-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2006/alanshieh/start?rev=1210407891&do=diff Alan Shieh, Linux UNDI Driver Comparing a UNDI driver to server-side initrd selection It is possible to achieve the same effect as an UNDI driver with other approaches, such as loading all possible drivers into an initrd, or selecting an initrd based on MAC address, thus allowing Linux to load the right module. Such a design of this is much more conservative, as it relies on driver code that has been used by a larger population