[Etherboot-developers] NIC file and ROM images

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

>Eric, I'm not sure what you mean.  According to
>
>    http://www.phoenix.com/PlatSS/PDFs/specs-bbs101.pdf
>
>Page 33, The PCI data structure seems only to occur once, and that is 
>where the vendor and device IDs are.  The PNP expansion header is a 
>chained structure, but does not have vendor or device information.  Maybe 
>I don't understand what you mean.

Apropos of that, I guess it's time to revamp the ROM building
procedures. The old NIC format is inadequate. I'm thinking of section
that lists the base images, then a section that lists the derived
images. The derived images can be made from a base image or another
derived image by modifying the PCI IDs and checksums in situ.  Another
program, say modrom, would do this. Makerom and modrom would be
rewritten in Perl.

The NIC file could also generate an include for config.c, so only one
place needs to be changed to support another derived image.