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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:07:30 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is anybody actually able to netboot at the moment?
Message-ID:  <20020129080730.A22842@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020122212659.4047D3BAB@overcee.wemm.org>; from peter@wemm.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:26:59PM -0800
References:  <15437.54936.916559.76942@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020122212659.4047D3BAB@overcee.wemm.org>

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On 2002-Jan-22 13:26:59 -0800, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote:
>I have found a bug in the prom_get() routine in srmnet.c.. its handling
>of the packet lengths is very very broken.  It seems to return the full
>size of the data area rather than the actual packet length.  This was
>upsetting a few things.  I will definately tinker with the checksum code
>and settings now.

At least some of this brokenness is to support old and broken SRMs that
expect different arguments to prom_read() and apparently return different
results.  I don't have any SRM's broken in this way.

Peter

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