Re: [Etherboot-developers] Error in elf make for website

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Marty Connor <md...@th...> writes:

> On 4/13/2002 7:39 PM Gregg C Levine dr...@wo... wrote:
> >Hello from Gregg C Levine
> >Problems with making elf bootable images for two 3COM cards, the 3C509,
> >and 3C905. I am placing here a cut & paste of the 3C509, and the 3C905
> >make: *** No rule to make target `bin32/3c509.elf'.  Stop.
> >make: Leaving directory `/tmp/ROMQkGW5W'

> Gregg,  rom-o-matic.net supports what the underlying packages support.  
> The .elf and .ebi formats are almost experimental right now.  Perhaps I 
> should put an even stronger warning on those options.

Given that Gregg was trying to build for LinuxBIOS he was in the
target user group :)
 
> >Marty this happened for these particular cards. I am also going to see
> >if I can create a similar image for the LinuxBIOS project, for the 3c509
> >That too failed with much the same error. Since the folks at the project
> >have not announced support for those cards, it is my guess that is why
> >we are getting those failures, but since there are more 3COM cards out
> >there, then nearly every single brand made, except for Intel, they
> >should be.

The 3c90x driver works fine.  For the most part if there is a
configuration that works in normal etherboot there is a configuration
that builds and probably works under LinuxBIOS.  In a few rare cases
drivers make unwarranted assumptions but we have already solved the worst
of that.

> I don't think I can be of much help with this.  Perhaps you should 
> correspond with the folks on the LinuxBIOS mailing list and see what they 
> say.  

Hmm.  Looking a little further it appears I currently do not support
building ISA NICs under LinuxBIOS.  It shouldn't be hard to change
but this is definentily not a rom-o-matic bug except possibly for
making it clear.  This appears to be an oversight on my part. 

Eric