Re: [Etherboot-developers] latest greatest eboot with IDE boot

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

ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >where is this? I need to do a source build.
> 
> In CVS currently. If you want to tailgate you should probably learn to
> checkout from CVS. I should release another rc with Eric's recent work
> but I've been flat out this week and I'm planning to go to the Manly
> Jazz Festival to relax this long weekend. When I get a free moment I'll
> do a rc.

Relax.  

I have another round of code to checkin, but I won't get to it
until Monday as I am going home to relax as well.

I have just finished a rewrite of the e1000 support.  I imported
all of the NIC setup code from intels latest driver and bug fixed
intels the code enough so that it works for me.  There was 1 function
where when the code timed out waiting for the link to come up it
returned succes, and another what checks to see if the ethernet link
is up or down and then returns the same value in either branch of the
code.

The neat thing I have to checkin is that I have the pcibios code now
fully relocateable.  So there are a lot more images that it is reasonable
to build.

And could we distinguish between what makes a release canidate and what
makes a development release?

You delayed initially because there wasn't a multicast client, but I
have fixed that and a couple of other things.  I am pretty certain
etherboot is over the major hump and headed for another stable
release.

My next big step will be to port to other architectures, but I think
that is to much for one development release.

On the small step side, the plan is to get all of my code checked in
and start writing documentation.  But I have some kernel patches that
I need to push before the code freeze at the end of this month, or the
20th, or however far Linus moves the timeline up to scare people into
sending him the patches early instead of in one big blob.

Eric