From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 19 11:55: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CF911791 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:54:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01129; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:49:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902191949.LAA01129@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug Rabson Cc: Mike Smith , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot status ? (diskless related) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:39:28 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:49:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Doug A. > > > One of atleast a couple people netbooting ELF kernels, starting to think people > > > don't care about netbooting anymore. > > > > I'm just waiting for you to finish the job; the loader needs network > > support too (there is actually WIP on this, let me know if you need > > more information). > > Note that the bootp/dhcp and nfs code in libstand works perfectly (I use > it for netboot on the alpha) so all that is needed is drivers. Yup; the WIP at the moment is driver support and infrastructure - on the Alpha you're just using SRM for the network, wheras on i386 there's somewhat more work to do. It sounded like another week or so would see some preliminary results. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message