Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot as a PnP ROM

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

>It's an 82558 that the vendor is integrating into a Phoenix bios.
>Sure, it worked fine with the floppy and it works fine if we integrate
>it into an Award bios as an ISA rom but not as a PnP rom.  We don't
>have the tools to integrate it into Phoenix in-house.  The part I
>really don't understand is the vendor complaint that the checksum is
>invalid.  

Quite a few people have been using Etherboot PnP ROMs. AFAIK any ROM
plugged into a PCI NIC would have to be a PnP ROM since these ROMs don't
occupy any memory area until they are enabled. I don't know what is
required of motherboard ROMs.  Can you get them to be more specific
about what part of the PCI PnP spec the ROM does not satisfy? Phoenix
co-developed the spec so they should know about this.