Re: [Etherboot-developers] Universal auto-probing driver

[<ke...@us...>]

>When built on my machine:
>etherboot.o        is 231245 bytes
>etherboot-pci.o    is 171370 bytes
>etherboot.img      is 183444 bytes
>etherboot.zimg     is  84581 bytes
>etherboot-pci.img  is 140628 bytes
>etherboot-pci.zimg is  75420 bytes
>...
>So I guess the next step is to look at the floppy loader and see
>what can be done about this so mere mortals can load super etherboot
>images.

Unless boot1a.s is made smarter, the limit it can load is 128 kB because
it takes the number of 512 byte sectors to load from the length byte in
the "ROM" image. It could be made smarter to look inside the PCI header
which uses a short to hold the number of sectors. But that would
probably require a second stage loader.