Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 5.1.2rc7 released

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ke...@us... writes:

> I have updated the tarball with Michael Brown's latest changes and it's
> available from:
> 
> 	http://www.etherboot.org/etherboot-5.1.2rc7.tar.bz2
> 
> I have tested it with a 3c509 and the following work:
> 
> + mkelf-nfl image
> + mkelf-linux image
> + mknbi-fdos image
> + mknbi-rom image (booting itself again, works repeatedly)

Another fun test, and a little more stressful, is you can do:
make xxx.{lz|nrv2b}elf 
And build an elf bootable etherboot image, that will also boot
itself repeatedly.  But there is no actuall rom header involved.

The nrv2b is the suffix for images compressed with the compressor
from upx.  It does slightly better then the lz compressor, and it allows
unlimited rom sizes.

Another fun target is etherboot.rom which compiles in all of the etherboot
drivers.

> It would be appreciated if people would test:
> 
> Other NICs
> mknbi-linux with and without --first32pm
> -DRELOCATION
> Other options
> NFS booting
> anything else you normally use
> 
> and post here.
> 

Eric