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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:33:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, peter@bonkers.taronga.com, bde@zeta.org.au, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: SVNET Meeting?
Message-ID:  <199503211733.JAA01283@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503211316.XAA15950@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 21, 95 11:16:25 pm

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> >Oh man.... Hmmm...  The firmware is < 2k.  Its basically an array of
> >byte values that the driver dumps to the card.  The current setup
> >is the best setup except that it contaminates the GENERIC kernel
> >(ie, if someone decides its okay for them to use this driver, it works
> >without haveing to do anything special on their part except configure
> >for the controller.)  If you can think of a way for the driver to 
> >read in an additional file during boot, then we can distribute the 
> >firmware separately.
> 
> There will have to be a another stage in the boot for 2.1.  This
> is not hard to implement, except for the dosboot and possibly the
> netboot.  The dosboot and the netboot are already out of date.
> The netboot lacks support for BIOS drive geometries (which is
> essential for correct operation of fdisk and sysinstall) and both
> lack support for BIOS memory sizes.

Say what ?

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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