25.07.2011 14:05, Michael Tokarev пишет:
> 25.07.2011 13:37, Torsten Werner пишет:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 16.05.2011 21:21, schrieb Daniel Baumann:
>>> Package: ftp.debian.org
>>>
>>> Please remove etherboot, it's replaced by ipxe.
>>
>> qemu-kvm and faumachine still (build) depend on netboot. What are the
>> plans here?
> 
> Only qemu-kvm in squeeze build-depends on etherboot,
> because initially it copied a selected set of boot
> roms from etherboot at build time.  This has changed
> in wheezy, -- we switched to runtime-depending on
> etherboot-qemu package - both qemu-kvm and qemu.
> etherboot-qemu provides a subset of all boot ROMS,
> in uncompressed form (qemu can't decompress them
> at runtime yet).
> 
> I asked to provide similar subset for ipxe.  I'm
> discussing this with waldi right now, hopefully...

Ok, we decided to switch to ipxe from etherboot right
away, in qemu-kvm package.  Qemu package performed
the same switch a month ago.  Upload pending today.

/mjt



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