[haiku-development] Re: EFI (was: multi-selection semantics)
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:59:15 +0200 CEST
> > 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.
There are alternative versions of NBD using UDP IIRC...
It should be quite easy to add udp support.
I could dig that one.
> How about the obvious: "network_block_device"?
Could do, usually drivers are for "devices" though :)
François.
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