etherboot-developers

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Error in elf make for website

[Marty C. <md...@th...>]

On 4/13/2002 7:39 PM Gregg C Levine dr...@wo... wrote:
>Hello from Gregg C Levine
>Problems with making elf bootable images for two 3COM cards, the 3C509,
>and 3C905. I am placing here a cut & paste of the 3C509, and the 3C905
>make: *** No rule to make target `bin32/3c509.elf'.  Stop.
>make: Leaving directory `/tmp/ROMQkGW5W'

Gregg,  rom-o-matic.net supports what the underlying packages support.  
The .elf and .ebi formats are almost experimental right now.  Perhaps I 
should put an even stronger warning on those options.

>Marty this happened for these particular cards. I am also going to see
>if I can create a similar image for the LinuxBIOS project, for the 3c509
>That too failed with much the same error. Since the folks at the project
>have not announced support for those cards, it is my guess that is why
>we are getting those failures, but since there are more 3COM cards out
>there, then nearly every single brand made, except for Intel, they
>should be.

I don't think I can be of much help with this.  Perhaps you should 
correspond with the folks on the LinuxBIOS mailing list and see what they 
say.  

Marty

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Re: [Etherboot-developers] Error in elf make for website

[<ke...@us...>]

>different systems. When I saw the new options for the cards, I decided
>that I would try it, for the two that I am most familiar with, the
>3C509, and the 3C905. For those two, it broke, as indicated. I have not

Looking at the Makefile and Roms file.

3c509 (ISA) is not supported for LinuxBIOS, so there is no make target
for it.

3c905 (PCI) is supported for LinuxBIOS as Eric indicated. But the
problem is that you (or the rom-o-matic script) should be asking for
foo.ebi, not foo.elf.  foo.elf is not a valid make target.

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Error in elf make for website

[<ebi...@ln...>]

ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >different systems. When I saw the new options for the cards, I decided
> >that I would try it, for the two that I am most familiar with, the
> >3C509, and the 3C905. For those two, it broke, as indicated. I have not
> 
> Looking at the Makefile and Roms file.
> 
> 3c509 (ISA) is not supported for LinuxBIOS, so there is no make target
> for it.
> 
> 3c905 (PCI) is supported for LinuxBIOS as Eric indicated. But the
> problem is that you (or the rom-o-matic script) should be asking for
> foo.ebi, not foo.elf.  foo.elf is not a valid make target.

Right 3c90x.elf (which is the generic driver) should work.
And since LinuxBIOS just starts etherboot it really doesn't matter
which variant you pick so long as you have a valid pairing.

generic driver -> elf
specific driver -> ebi

Eric

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Error in elf make for website

[<ebi...@ln...>]

Marty Connor <md...@th...> writes:

> On 4/13/2002 7:39 PM Gregg C Levine dr...@wo... wrote:
> >Hello from Gregg C Levine
> >Problems with making elf bootable images for two 3COM cards, the 3C509,
> >and 3C905. I am placing here a cut & paste of the 3C509, and the 3C905
> >make: *** No rule to make target `bin32/3c509.elf'.  Stop.
> >make: Leaving directory `/tmp/ROMQkGW5W'

> Gregg,  rom-o-matic.net supports what the underlying packages support.  
> The .elf and .ebi formats are almost experimental right now.  Perhaps I 
> should put an even stronger warning on those options.

Given that Gregg was trying to build for LinuxBIOS he was in the
target user group :)
 
> >Marty this happened for these particular cards. I am also going to see
> >if I can create a similar image for the LinuxBIOS project, for the 3c509
> >That too failed with much the same error. Since the folks at the project
> >have not announced support for those cards, it is my guess that is why
> >we are getting those failures, but since there are more 3COM cards out
> >there, then nearly every single brand made, except for Intel, they
> >should be.

The 3c90x driver works fine.  For the most part if there is a
configuration that works in normal etherboot there is a configuration
that builds and probably works under LinuxBIOS.  In a few rare cases
drivers make unwarranted assumptions but we have already solved the worst
of that.

> I don't think I can be of much help with this.  Perhaps you should 
> correspond with the folks on the LinuxBIOS mailing list and see what they 
> say.  

Hmm.  Looking a little further it appears I currently do not support
building ISA NICs under LinuxBIOS.  It shouldn't be hard to change
but this is definentily not a rom-o-matic bug except possibly for
making it clear.  This appears to be an oversight on my part. 

Eric