From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 19:34:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA19530 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 19:34:51 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA19522 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 19:34:48 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA26782; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 19:34:29 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504030234.TAA26782@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: netboot for each card? To: martin@victor.innovus.com (Martin Renters) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 19:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504030234.WAA16955@victor.innovus.com> from "Martin Renters" at Apr 2, 95 10:34:40 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 788 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I was just looking at that recent changes made to include the 3C509 > support. It seems netboot has now expanded past the 16K boundary, > making the ROM version as distributed useless. We could bump the size of > the ROM image to 32K, but some cards may not work with ROMs of that size. > > I was wondering if it makes sense to build a netboot.rom for each of the > supported cards. This would leave us with a smaller that 16K rom image > (hopefully) for each of the cards which could then actually be used by > somebody. How about just making sufficient ...rom files that none of them is above 16k. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'