Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:24:12 +1000 From: davidb@melb.convergent.com.au (David Burren) To: current@freebsd.org Cc: davidb@melb.convergent.com.au Subject: Updated netboot code (who should I send it to?) Message-ID: <199706100624.QAA02911@duchess.melb.arcsystems.com.au>
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I've got some changes to the FreeBSD netboot code, and would like to know where to send them to in case people would like them in -current. The diffs are against today's (970610) -current tree, so there shouldn't be too much work. A summary of the changes: - Added serial console functions, similar to the "biosboot" bootblocks. If a keyboard is not detected, COM1 will be used, and the RB_SERIAL flag is passed to the loaded kernel. Two #defines affect this: FORCE_SERIAL skips the keyboard probe, and ECHO_BIOS duplicates serial output to the screen for debugging. - Changed "Boot from Network (Y/N) ?" prompting to timeout, with the default behaviour being controlled by a compile-time option (which also affects the response to an Enter at this prompt). - Added COMPLAIN_RFC1048 #define to control the "Unknown RFC1048-tag" messages. My DHCP environment defines lots of default options, and if this program doesn't understand them, it shouldn't care. - The .COM versions now exit back to DOS if the user decides to quit instead of attempting to reboot the machine. This means that the programs can usefully be inserted into an AUTOEXEC.BAT. - CVS revision string from netboot.h is inserted into the image. I needed some way to keep track of different EPROM revisions... I did the work in a 2.1.7 environment, and have just finished merging the changes back into a -current snapshot from today (of course, some of my other changes are now obsolete :-). Once I've done some basic testing of that I can send the patches off, but I need to know where. Thanks __ David Burren davidb@convergent.com.au
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