Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:10:52 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is anybody actually able to netboot at the moment? Message-ID: <20020128221051.A35269@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020129080730.A22842@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:07:30AM %2B1100 References: <15437.54936.916559.76942@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020122212659.4047D3BAB@overcee.wemm.org> <20020129080730.A22842@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:07:30AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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. 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
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