etherboot-developers

[Etherboot-developers] etherboot-5.1.2rc5 available

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

It's at www.etherboot.org/etherboot-5.1.2rc5.tar.bz2

It's got some fixes by Eric and Michael. You should use mknbi-1.2-10rc1
(just announced) with it if you are using a PC BIOS.

Eric, where are we with the debugging? Is it ready for people to try to
see if it will work with various NICs?

Re: [Etherboot-developers] etherboot-5.1.2rc5 available

[Eric W B. <ebi...@ln...>]

ke...@us... writes:

> It's at www.etherboot.org/etherboot-5.1.2rc5.tar.bz2
> 
> It's got some fixes by Eric and Michael. You should use mknbi-1.2-10rc1
> (just announced) with it if you are using a PC BIOS.
> 
> Eric, where are we with the debugging? Is it ready for people to try to
> see if it will work with various NICs?

With the new mknbi we have shown that the standard code paths ELF && NBI
are working.  So the remaining problems will be primarily NIC problems.

There are two generic code paths that still needs some work.
-DCAN_BOOT_DISK
-UCONFIG_PCI_DIRECT

For disk access the old functionality is not quite yet provided by the new
code.

The pci code that makes BIOS calls make some assumptions about segment
registers, that I haven't had time to go back and fix.

Eric