[Maas-devel] Support for ARM PXE booting, esp. in absence of control over DHCP

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Gavin Panella
<gavin.panella at canonical.com> wrote:
> I just had a discussion with Robie Basak about PXE booting ARM
> servers, and these are my notes. I'll cement these into a spec (or add
> them to an existing spec) once everyone has had a chance to comment.
>
> Right now, MAAS assumes that it controls DHCP on a network. It runs
> the ISC DHCP server, and there's configuration in there to select the
> bootloader depending on the vendor-class-identifier option.
>
> However, we can no longer assume that we have control of DHCP, so we
> cannot dispatch to a different bootloader depending on the vendor

Why can't we assume this?

-Rob