diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100644
index c38a874..0000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "ipxe"]
-	branch = master
-[submodule "src/ipxe"]
-	path = src/ipxe
-	url = git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git
diff --git a/bdisk/ipxe.py b/bdisk/ipxe.py
index 3bb2a30..4e9808c 100755
--- a/bdisk/ipxe.py
+++ b/bdisk/ipxe.py
@@ -9,5 +9,9 @@ def buildIPXE(conf):
     bdisk = conf['bdisk']
     ipxe = conf['ipxe']
     templates_dir = build['basedir'] + '/extra/templates'
-    patches_dir = build['basedir'] + 
+    ipxe_tpl = templates_dir + '/iPXE'
+    patches_dir = ipxe_tpl + '/patches'
+    srcdir = build['srcdir']
+    ipxe_src = srcdir + '/ipxe'
+    ipxe_git_uri = 
     pass
diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO
index 1d2ab74..f0b8772 100644
--- a/docs/TODO
+++ b/docs/TODO
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 -i_am_a_racecar optimizations
 -see also: grep -HnR bdisk/*.py
 -TFTP, HTTP, RSYNC, git
+-UPDATE THE README!
+-sizes of build iso files
 
 ## General ##
 
diff --git a/src/ipxe b/src/ipxe
deleted file mode 160000
index 0a4805b..0000000
--- a/src/ipxe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 0a4805bf943be5b573b0560ecfcc88ff9999fd95