Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:41:53 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question on diskless boot Message-ID: <199612160841.JAA00321@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <9207.850642949@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Dec 15, 96 10:42:10 am
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> There is some preliminary support for PCI devices, but probably only > for NE2000 kind of stuff in the netboot code. I've never heard from > anybody if it even works. yes, I wrote it for my bridge code (available from my home page) and then ported it to the netboot code. About its status: it works with some combinations of motherboards/ethernet cards, but not with others. Apparently there are different levels of compliance to the PCI specs, at least for the detection of boot ROMs. ... > > Finally, you may want to try to see if you can get any kind > of boot-proms for the de0 cards, and use whatever method they > use to get live. the ones I have don't even have a socket :(! Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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