[syslinux] [RFC, PATCH] core/pxe: Add architecture-specific discovery request for PXE config file

Gene Cumm
Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:56:19 -0000

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org> wrote:

> As Gene has mentioned, we could indeed do this in pxelinux through
> serving different binary images, but this means we need a different
> method for different pxe loader implementations, and this won't work
> when the loader binary is already present on the machine.
>
> What I'm looking to do here is establish a bit of a convention for
> allowing machines of multiple architectures to be perform PXE
> configuration in a uniform way (in this case, without requiring the DHCP
> server to send out different lease parameters in response to the
> client's DHCP architecture ID).

How do you have multiple architectures booting from the same directory
at this time?  What exact string is used by network boot clients of
each of the three architectures?

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-Gene