Re: [Etherboot-developers] Multiple drivers

[Eric W B. <ebi...@ln...>]

Michael Brown <mb...@fe...> writes:

> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Ken Yap wrote:
> > >Any way to get eb 5.07 to try multiple drivers?  I have a lab of crap
> > >computers, and it would be great to make a boot disk that had 5 or 6
> > >etherboot nic drivers that it could try to load.
> > Make a LILO floppy that will allow you to choose from a selection of
> > drivers.
> > Discussion redirected to users list where it belongs.
> 
> It is also possible with EB 5.0.7 to have multiple drivers in a single
> image.  For example:
> 
>   make bin32/rtl8139--prism2_pci.lzrom
> 
> will give you a ROM image that has rtl8139 and prism2_pci drivers, with
> the PCI IDs of an RTL8139 card.
> 
> Be warned that you are likely to run out of memory with >2 drivers.
> Symptoms will be seemingly random reboots.  Eric's memory allocation code
> in the 5.1.x branch fixes this problem, AFAIK.

To be clear it is the fact that 5.1.x isn't constrained to live in 64K
that fixes this problem.  The memory allocator is useful for those for those
cases where static allocation won't work.

Eric