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From: Christoph P. <chr...@al...> - 2002-02-28 12:33:45
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You are right, it is a special case. But this case is not only for ISA, but also for PCI !! In my case it was a PCI device (eepro100) and a new embedded Pentium board and a current BIOS version. And especially for all users (also beginners), who want to use the etherboot query instead of the BIOS boot order, all those user will need this options (removing "-DPCI_PNP_HEADER"). So it is not so special ... It is paradox. The old BIOS not able to handle PCI/PnP headers, have no problems, but the user also misses the feature of a define boot order including the net. On very new BIOS the problem exists, if the user want to have a selection without touching the BIOS setup 9for example embedded boards using serial console with a BIOS without serial console port ....). I hope I could explain the problem, I often use the wrong words ... Christoph Plattner Ken Yap wrote: > > >So could for example introduce a > > > >BBS_OPTIONS = -DPCI_PNP_HEADER # is the default > > > >in the `Config' file, and the user can comment this line, > >if the user wants to have a legacy extension ROM. > >It would also be nice to have this as a "rom-o-matic" option. > > Sounds like something that's rarely needed and people who know what they > are doing can edit the Config file. I think putting it in rom-o-matic is > bad idea, people who don't know what they are doing will fiddle with > this option without reason. > > I think the behaviour of PnP BIOSes to legacy ROMs is being phased out > as motherboards stop having ISA slots. > > _______________________________________________ > Etherboot-developers mailing list > Eth...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-developers -- +--------V--------+ Chr...@al... | A L C A T E L | ----------------------------- +-----------------+ Phone: +43 1 27722 3706 T A S Fax: +43 1 27722 3955 |
