Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:56:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken Message-ID: <199911031856.KAA60751@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199911031824.KAA60287@apollo.backplane.com> <32207.941654299@critter.freebsd.dk> <199911031844.LAA09963@mt.sri.com>
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:> I think most if not all the ethernet cards I or my customers
:> have bought over the last year have sported mighty fine netboot
:> capabilities.
:
:FWIW, few of the cards I've bought over the years sport netboot. And,
:netboot is an impossibility in 'embedded' systems that use things like
:PCMCIA/CARDBUS, which are becoming common-place for embedded routers and
:such.
:
:Netboot (IMO) is an unacceptable solution to many folks. It seems that
:'progress' in this case means removing alot of existing functionality
:that is used by a number of folks.
:
:(CDROM root, BOOTP, etc...)
:
:Nate
The day that any of us can walk into a well-stocked CompUSA store and
see more then 70% of the network card brands sport a netboot capability
out of the box is the day that we can start to think about doing without
the kernel BOOTP code.
That day may not come for a few years. It certainly isn't here now.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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