Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot has eepro100.c for 82559....?

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

Ronald G Minnich <rmi...@la...> writes:

> Here are the sum total of our differences against a clean 5.0.5 checkout
> (turns out we were doing 5.0.5, sorry). This etherboot worked fine for us
> for a number of motherboards with eepro and 3c509 and rtl8139 interfaces.
> I suspect, however, that you all have improved things to the point that
> most of these fixes are unnecessary. Who knows.
> 
> The changes are mostly for:
> 1: 3c90x fixes for linuxbios machines
> 2: eepro100 fixes for linuxbios machines
> 3: rtl8139 fixes """""""""""""""""""""
> 4: making TIMER2 an option, and using TSC instead.
> 
> The problem is that it is somewhat hard to build this etherboot against
> the newest linuxbios -- it appears the .ebi format changed a bit so
> linuxbios won't boot the .ebis from this tree any more.
> 
> Also, the smartcore p5 has some differences from the other ones so we're
> not even sure if this is an etherboot, linuxbios, or smartcore issue. Or
> all 3. or any 2. :-)

O.k. I got it, the joys of a developer list that won't take patches :)
Your patch is reversed but I should be able to cope.

Eric