From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jan 28 13:11:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199DE37B404 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:11:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0SLAqD35291; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:10:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:10:52 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Peter Wemm , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is anybody actually able to netboot at the moment? Message-ID: <20020128221051.A35269@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <15437.54936.916559.76942@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020122212659.4047D3BAB@overcee.wemm.org> <20020129080730.A22842@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020129080730.A22842@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:07:30AM +1100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:07:30AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-Jan-22 13:26:59 -0800, Peter Wemm 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. FWIW: the DEC3000 series (IIRC) SRM had quirks like that. My DEC3000 is long gone so I cannot check it anymore W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message