[Etherboot-developers] Intel D815EGEW mainboard and RTL8139 NIC

[James N. <jn...@me...>]

Sorry if this has been discussed before, I'm a new member to the list so
bear with me.

We have compiled Etherboot 5.1.1 and 4.7.22 and production version 5.0.5
without problems.   At first we compiled them under RedHat 7.1 with GCC
2.96-98 -- big mistake.  Compiler worked but Etherboot did not.  It would
not send  or receive packets.  So we went back to an older version of GCC
like mentioned in the Etherboot docs.     We went back to GCC 2.95-2 and now
Etherboot is happy.

We have an Intel D815EGEW mainboard with a Dolphin (RTL8139C) NIC with boot
PROM socket.    The Etherboot 4.7.22 or 5.1.1 PROM image (rtl8139.rom) will
not boot in this system but the Etherboot 5.0.5 PROM image does?   (All
versions of Etherboot compiled from same RedHat system)   We have installed
this same NIC in other systems with different mainboards and every version
of Etherboot works.  So it appears to be mainboard specific.    Our question
is why does 5.0.5 work and 5.1.1 / 4.7.22 not work?   Is there something we
can do to help test Etherboot 5.1.1 version with this mainboard?

Thanks for your time,

James