> I think you'll have that problem with any UNDI driver; in either case
> I suspect that (a) performance will stink no matter what
That's ok for the things we will do.
> and (b) it won't work properly with SMP unless you apply really
> heavy locking.
Does it matter in our case?
> The PXE people at Intel really seems enamored with the idea of using
> the UNDI stack all the way into the operating system;
We need it not to run an operating system, we need it for the
installation of an operating system.
On the other hand, UNDI will deliver a network driver for all PXE-cards
that come up before there is any direct hardware support. (Ok, then b
matters)
-- Tobias Wollgam * Softwaredevelopment * Business Unit Information MATERNA GmbH Information & Communications Vosskuhle 37 * 44141 Dortmund http://www.materna.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/