Re: Etherboot as backend of INT13h AoE driver

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:54:27PM +1100, James Harper wrote:
> Some more thinking, after looking at the code and development
> documentation (which btw, is far and above any other open source
> documentation I've ever read!)...
    <snip/> 
> >From what I've read so far, we'll only need a small handful of ATA
> commands, and the AoE protocol is pretty straight forward. We already
> have the send and receive packet routines from the Ethernet drivers. No
> need to worry about TCP/IP. No need for interrupts either. Reading or
> writing is really just a matter of sending a few packets and waiting for
> responses.
> 
> I'll keep looking.

I think it is a cool project
and that it is a good thing to keep
 http://wiki.etherboot.org/pmwiki.php/Main/AoE up-to-date.


Cheers
Geert Stappers
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