Re: [Etherboot-developers] Q: TODO list for 5.2

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>I started pcnet32 a while back, but without a hardware nic, it became
>difficult.  For some reason I hit a size issue in 5.0 and I did not seem
>to be able to get 5.1 to boot via vmware.  I would add fixing vmware
>support to the list, but I don't know where to start.  I am however
>looking to purchase a pcnet based NIC if I can find one.  They seem to
>be fairly rare...

You didn't leave the number of Rx and Tx buffers at the Linux default
did you? That would blow up the footprint. I usually bring the number of
Rx buffers down to 2 or 4 and the Tx buffer to 1 for Etherboot. The
protocols used are stop and wait anyway, and don't need to transmit back
to back.