Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Mar 2003 13:10:28 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] klibc for 2.5.64 - try 2 |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > The last time I worked on something like this I put a dhcp client, and > a tftp client in a single binary, my compressed initrd was only 16K on > x86. And I had a complete network boot loader using the linux kernel. > > Now the kernel is so big and bloated it has not been practical to use > it. So my effort has mostly been concentrated on etherboot. Which > is essentially a mini-kernel that just focuses on being a network boot > loader. And with etherboot I can get a udp/ip stack. With dhcp and > tftp support, and an eepro100 nic driver into 38K on an Itanium (The > platform with possible the most bloated binaries known to man). On x86 > with an eepro100 driver I can usually get it down to around 16K. (All > sizes represent self decompressing executables). >
Incidentally, any hope of getting Etherboot to act as a PXE stack any time soon?
-hpa (ducks & runs)
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