Re: AW: [Etherboot-developers] etherboot Ver. 4.7.23

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

On 4/13/01 7:19 AM Ken Yap ke...@nl... wrote:
>It seems that, from a couple of reports, some people have non-conformant
>BIOSes. I will edit loader.S in the next version so that by defining
>NON_PNP_BIOS, they can use the INT19H mechanism to hook the boot entry
>point, i.e. the mechanism used by "legacy ROMs".

I was thinking of adding something to the rom-o-matic which would allow 
people to swap the ID bytes as they created their rom, using the 
"swapdevids.pl" program.  The other experiment I was thinking of trying 
was using a byte pattern of 02 00 02  which, when reversed is the same.  
I'm not sure if the final byte is all that important.

>The 82559er bug is a different issue not yet understood. My guess is a
>media selection issue.

If I could find such a card, I'd be willing to check this out.  I haven't 
looked too hard at this driver, but without a test card, it's a little 
difficult to debug.

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