On 10/14/15 00:11, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:53:44PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: >> 01.10.2015 14:50, Laszlo Ersek ??????????: >>> - assuming it is "ethernet packet", look for MNPSB first, and if it's >>> there, call it to get a private-use MNP instance, in order to transmit >>> and receive, >>> - if MNPSB is not there, open SNP in exclusive mode, same as now. >>> >>> Or else, >>> - stick with the current exclusive SNP reopen, but make sure that all >>> aspects are reconfigured from the ground up. >>> >> >> I completely agree; the tiny insignificant missing piece here is actual >> code :) Of course it also means new can of worms and new unknown >> firmware bugs ... >> >> Hatayama-san, would you consider implementing MNP-based driver for GRUB? >> Having at least proof of concept available for testing would be good. > > Are we sure that we want to migrate to MNP? As I saw others (e.g. PXELINUX, > iPXE) use SNP and it work for them.
Hatayama-san, can you perhaps test PXELINUX and iPXE on those machines where the current grub code exposes problems? Thank you, Laszlo > > If yes then I can post my unfinished rebase work for Solaris GRUB2 MNP > patches. > I did that for our internal needs, however, I did not finish it because > usptream > GRUB2 solved our problems. Well, patches are very raw, based on very old GRUB2 > (Apr 2012) and do not build. However, maybe they could be a good starting > point > for further work. > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
