From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 14 12:08:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00192 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com (garbo.lodgenet.com [204.124.122.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00187 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:08:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erich@lodgenet.com) Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [10.0.122.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA27362; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:44:47 -0600 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA89266; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:57:45 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199901141957.NAA89266@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), ambrisko@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, erich@jake.lodgenet.com, erich@jake.lodgenet.com Subject: Re: netboot & ELF kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:56:14 +0100." <199901141656.RAA29888@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:57:45 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo writes: >> Supporting any card that has a FreeBSD driver isn't that tough, you don't >> really need programming specs other than the driver source (although >> it is nice). Tricker is actually burning the flash image. > >well it depends on the driver. Unless you have done some substantial >work towards the integration with your fxp port, i remember the "ed" >driver is significantly different (more complex) from >the "ns8390.c" code, so backporting one driver to netboot is not easy. >At least this was my experience with the "de" driver (things might be >simpler for "pure" FreeBSD drivers such as fxp or the recent vintage of >DEC clones from Bill Paul) Yea, any of the drivers that can handle multiple cards won't be as easy, but if you can hack out everything 'cept the interesting part, you're in business ;-) sometimes cvs history is your friend ;-) > > cheers > luigi >-----------------------------------+------------------------------------- > Luigi RIZZO . > EMAIL: luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione > HTTP://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa > TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) >-----------------------------------+------------------------------------- > Eric -- Eric L. Hernes erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message