Re: Univeral Protocol Driver (using UNDI) in Linux

[H. Peter Anvin]

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.

	-hpa
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