From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 11 09:16:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA02375 for current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (critter.phk.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA02370 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02147; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:32:49 +0200 (CEST) To: davidb@melb.convergent.com.au (David Burren) cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: Updated netboot code (who should I send it to?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:24:12 +1000." <199706100624.QAA02911@duchess.melb.arcsystems.com.au> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:32:49 +0200 Message-ID: <2145.866043169@critter.dk.tfs.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I guess the best thing is to send a PR (send-pr) with the patch. I'll look at it as soon as I can, this is unlikely to be fast, but your patch will not be lost that way, and other people can get to it too. Poul-Henning In message <199706100624.QAA02911@duchess.melb.arcsystems.com.au>, David Burren writes: >I've got some changes to the FreeBSD netboot code, and would like to >know where to send them to in case people would like them in -current. > >The diffs are against today's (970610) -current tree, so there >shouldn't be too much work. > >A summary of the changes: > >- Added serial console functions, similar to the "biosboot" bootblocks. > If a keyboard is not detected, COM1 will be used, and the RB_SERIAL > flag is passed to the loaded kernel. > Two #defines affect this: FORCE_SERIAL skips the keyboard probe, > and ECHO_BIOS duplicates serial output to the screen for debugging. > >- Changed "Boot from Network (Y/N) ?" prompting to timeout, with > the default behaviour being controlled by a compile-time option > (which also affects the response to an Enter at this prompt). > >- Added COMPLAIN_RFC1048 #define to control the "Unknown RFC1048-tag" > messages. My DHCP environment defines lots of default options, and > if this program doesn't understand them, it shouldn't care. > >- The .COM versions now exit back to DOS if the user decides to quit > instead of attempting to reboot the machine. This means that the > programs can usefully be inserted into an AUTOEXEC.BAT. > >- CVS revision string from netboot.h is inserted into the image. > I needed some way to keep track of different EPROM revisions... > >I did the work in a 2.1.7 environment, and have just finished merging >the changes back into a -current snapshot from today (of course, some >of my other changes are now obsolete :-). Once I've done some basic >testing of that I can send the patches off, but I need to know where. > >Thanks >__ >David Burren >davidb@convergent.com.au -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.