[Etherboot-developers] 5.1.2+ Issues

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

Ken Yap         -- ELF images hang after loader.
Timothy Legge   -- 486 floppy boot failure.
Ron Minnich     -- No timer2
Eric Biederman  -- No Multicast test code
Eric Biederman  -- Documenation is not updated to match the core changes.
Ron Minnich && 
atul srivastava -- 82559ER problems
Eric Biederman  -- No relocatable drivers.

Thoughts on fixes.

Ken I'm not certain what your ELF problems are.
I will have to test the output of mkelf-linux on a non-LinuxBIOS
machine and see what I get.  I cannot reproduce the problem.

I have a 386 and a 486 at home and if I have a moment this weekend,
I will attempt to reproduce the 486 hang.  The 386 doesn't have a nic
but that doesn't matter.

Having code that works without timer2 seems important because
there have also been some well know chipsets that loose the high
half, and give erradic timings if it is used.  So I am definitely
looking at what it will take to merge Ron's, changes.

I definitely plan on writing a mini-server this long weekend,
so other people can test my multicast code.

The documentation, and driver issues are noted so I don't forget they exist.
There has been a lot of traffic lately.

Hopefully in the next day or two we can get the core debugged well
enough that the major problem will be drivers that don't relocate
properly.


Eric