Re: Status of UNDI Support

[Marco Gerards]

Vesa Jääskeläinen <address@hidden> writes:

> Marco Gerards wrote:
>> I prefer to support both.  The etherboot drivers usually work better
>> than UNDI, AFAIK.  But when etherboot does not support a card, people
>> can fall back to UNDI.  Don't forget that not all cards support UNDI,
>> so I don't want UNDI only.
>
> I think the many driver manufactures has NDIS drivers. So I think
> supporting this option would be nice. Perhaps when the network driver
> interface has been specified (and I have all critical parts in video
> support done), I could check it out.

NDIS drivers are non-free software.  We can't and will not support
this.  It can't even be done unofficially, in that case it will be a
license violation, AFAIK.

And besides that, using non-free software is just not the right thing
to do.

--
Marco