From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 24 19:01:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA15133 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:01:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15128 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA12885 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:00:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:00:53 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199811250300.EAA12885@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing the load address of the kernel? Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Ambrisko wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > Oliver Fromme writes: > | It would be nice to have FreeBSD support for those ROMs, too, > | in one way or another. Even if we had a working netboot code, > | many people aren't able to make their own EPROMs. Especially > | those QPGA/FPGA (?) Flash memories required for many PCI cards > | (like the EtherExpress Pro/100) aren't easy to make on your > | own. > > Actually it is pretty easy to do it for the Intel cards since they is > a utility from IBM that programs the flash boot rom on Intel cards. It's not mentioned in intel's docs. They don't even mention at all that it is possible to do something like that. However, it still leaves the problem to get such a flash ROM somewhere. I don't know about the US, but over here in Germany it's not easy to find them. > I've hacked Etherboot to load FreeBSD/aout again and now to load FreeBSD/elf. Is your code available from somewhere? If it's usable, why not commit it? Would make things probably much easier for me. :-) I assume that the FreeBSD kernel will be ELF-only some day, so my own a.out hackery won't work anymore then... Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message