Re: [Etherboot-developers] Prism II (wireless) drivers

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

>> For now the 5.1 branch is dead. 5.0.6 is the correct version
>> to be working against.
>
>What's the story behind this?  I assumed 5.1 was meant to be the
>development branch.

Because of the relatively small number of developers at the moment,
Etherboot can't really support two full development streams. So unlike
the Linux kernel effort, the minor number means something slightly
different; the odd numbered branch is used for testing occasional
controversial or high-impact changes. I realise this causes some
confusion when people try to fetch that branch. What I will do in future
is remove the development release from the release area, when the
production release supercedes it.  The alternative is to have yet
another convention for naming: e.g. 5.0.7pre2, which I'm not happy with.

>BTW, I have an EPROM programmer and am willing to burn EPROMs for anyone
>in the UK (for a small fee to cover costs).

Marty and and I are discussing setting up a web page listing a
grass-roots list of people who will burn EPROMs for cost plus. Stay
tuned.