[haiku-development] Re: EFI (was: multi-selection semantics)
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:09:01 +0200 CEST
Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the boot loader is already using a different method
> > to
> > access the boot image - I don't think it would be desirable to have
> > two
> > different methods for the same thing, especially when you have to
> > start
> > two different servers for serving the image.
> Yeah, I would simply write a kernel device driver for the protocol I
> used.
> The alternative is to add NBD support to the boot loader, but that
> would
> require us to add TCP support, too.
Which is not an option, if you ask me :-)
> > I hope Ingo will continue with this some day, anyway :-)
> Yeah, with the FreeBSD compatibility layer, porting the network
> device
> driver for my Mac is hopefully a trifle, now. So, one day... :-)
Let's hope for the best, then :)
> > I didn't yet think about a new name for nbd; maybe "remote_disk"
> > would
> > do.
> How about the obvious: "network_block_device"?
Now that's a bit redundant, don't you think? But if you want to keep
remote_disk for the boot loader's protocol only, then I certainly won't
mind, either.
Bye,
Axel.
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