Etherboot as backend of INT13h AoE driver

Thinking about what it would take to write a BIOS driver for the AoE
(ATA over Ethernet) protocol, it occurred to me that Etherboot already
contains the code to read and write frames from a large variety of
different network cards, and that it might work as the backend of an AoE
INT13h driver.

For this to work, Etherboot would need to be able to receive interrupts
from the card (eg not be polled), and would need to able to stay
resident in high memory until another OS took over. I think it might
also need to be 16 bit code too... is Etherboot 16 bit, or is it only
the init code which runs as 16 bit?

Thanks

James


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