[Etherboot-developers] Re: etherboot

[Tom T. <to...@mm...>]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:52:02AM +1100, ke...@us... wrote:
> There has been a one line fix and someone has reported a working tulip.
> You can find the patch at the web site. The bit about hanging at the 'R'
> is not Tulip related. I have not experienced it, only Timothy Legge has.
> It's quite strange, it only happens with his 486 not his Pentium. But
> then you must be running a Pentium too, since the Tulip is a PCI card so
> what gives?  It might be one of those rare compiler bugs. What version
> of gcc are you running? 2.95 and 3.2 seem to work ok for me.

My home development system will soon be 3.2,
right now I use kgcc on a Red Hat system which gives
me egcs-2.91.66 (instead of the buggy 2.96).
I could build the images on another system running gcc 3.2.

Interestingly my test system is a 486 !!  It is a late period
486 with an am486DX4-120 processor, UMC chipset, and 3 pci slots.

So, I have many things to try now, I will do some experimenting.

	Tom

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Tom Trebisky
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