From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 3 10:56:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5785414CE0 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:56:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA60751; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:56:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:56:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199911031856.KAA60751@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nate Williams Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken References: <199911031824.KAA60287@apollo.backplane.com> <32207.941654299@critter.freebsd.dk> <199911031844.LAA09963@mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message