From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 19 12:58: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B74B118B1 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA63345; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:55:57 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:55:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot status ? (diskless related) In-Reply-To: <199902191949.LAA01129@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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. That sounds good. I just wanted to make it clear to people who aren't familiar with the bootstrap that after driver support is there, the rest will 'just work'. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message