Hi, This weekend I worked on networking support for GRUB 2. It is still far from done. A lot of people are interested in this functionality, so I hope this email answers all questions. At first I said I would do this in February, but things went more smoothly than I expected.
First of all, what have I been doing: Because I like working in userspace because it makes things easier to debug, I am using grub-emu to implement networking. In order to be able to do this I am using TAP (a virtual Ethernet device). I have developed Ethernet support. At the moment only the TAP device is supported. But I plan to add support for IEEE 1275 and perhaps UNDI support. Vincent was working on support for PCI cards, I hope he will find the time to finish this some day... Except Ethernet support, I've also written ARP support and made it possible to send IP+UDP packets. The support to receive IP+UDP is not finished yet. How everything is implemented will be described when I send in the patch, but feel free to ask questions about the implementation and design. Things I planned to do: - Finish IPv4+UDP receive. - Implement DHCP/BOOTP. - Clean up the code a bit and document everything properly. - Add IEEE 1275 support (so networking will work on the PPC and SPARC). - Implement TFTP. Things I will perhaps work on: - UNDI - Starting a GRUB hackers manual with clear examples of networking and how it all works. Things I (most likely) will not do: - PCI card support. Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
