svn commit: r246220 - user/sbruno/pxe_http_head

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org> wrOn
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> While I don't want to discourage from this work the IPXE package
> (formerly etherboot) already provides HTTP as well as iSCSI, FCoE
> and AoE to load the kernel.  It also provides a nice scripting
> language where the scrips can even be loaded through HTTP.  IPXE
> is GPLv2 licensed though.
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> Andre
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Does iPXE work with FreeBSD?  It would be good to see newer alternatives
to PXE/TFTP, especially things that work over HTTP.

Based on this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-January/039334.html
I am wondering if there are areas of the NFS root mount code that
we can clean up so it works better with things like iPXE.

Right now there are a lot of preprocessor macros that can be enabled
in the kernel (NFS_ROOT, BOOTP*, etc.).
If this stuff could be cleaned up so that instead of compile time macros,
these features get converted to run-time behaviors that can be triggered
by kernel environment varialbes that are documented, that would be nicer
IMHO.

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Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at crodrigues.org