Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:35:29 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Univeral Protocol Driver (using UNDI) in Linux |
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Daniel Rodrick wrote: > > Hi ... so there seem to be no technical feasibily issues, just > reliabliy / ugly design issues? So one can still go ahead and write a > Universal Protocol Driver that can work with all (PXE compatible) > NICs? >
For some definition of "all" = meaning "it might work on some of them."
> Are there any issues related to real mode / protected mode?
Yes, a whole bunch of PXE/UNDI stacks are broken in protected mode.
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