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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:49:03 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netboot status ? (diskless related) 
Message-ID:  <199902191949.LAA01129@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:39:28 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902191938250.81758-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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> > > Doug A.
> > > One of atleast a couple people netbooting ELF kernels, starting to think people
> > > don't care about netbooting anymore.
> > 
> > I'm just waiting for you to finish the job; the loader needs network 
> > support too (there is actually WIP on this, let me know if you need 
> > more information).
> 
> Note that the bootp/dhcp and nfs code in libstand works perfectly (I use
> it for netboot on the alpha) so all that is needed is drivers.

Yup; the WIP at the moment is driver support and infrastructure - on the 
Alpha you're just using SRM for the network, wheras on i386 there's 
somewhat more work to do.  It sounded like another week or so would see 
some preliminary results.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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