Re: [Etherboot-developers] Q: TODO list for 5.2
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From: <ke...@et...> - 2003-07-11 14:52:15
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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. |