Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:36:16 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Any experience with bootrom for PCI boards ? Message-ID: <199603261336.OAA14837@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Has anyone experience in building a netboot ROM for a PCI board ? Apparently (from Shanley's "PCI sytem architecture", fresh from the bookstore) ROMs mounted on a PCI board require some special header to work. The problem is, they appear to work with only a single PCI board as they must match both the VENDOR and DEVICE ID (this is a bit boring! a nice thing of the FreeBSD ROM is that it works with a number of different boards. With the PCI ROM, you can have multiple images in a single ROM, but it seems that you are not allowed to have a single image for a number of different boards.) I think I have figured out a way to do it (a bit boring, though), but I am wondering if someone else has had a similar experience and in case can share his knowledge -- unfortunately, there is no way to tell what is going wrong when the ROM is not recognized! Thanks 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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