Re: [Etherboot-developers] tlan driver sucessfully boots ltsp

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>I just committed a version of the tlan driver that can successfully load
>and boot the ltsp kernel.

Wonderful. Good onya. If you do a backport to 5.0 I can release 5.0.11,
and put 5.0 into maintenance mode (de facto anyway), and then
concentrate on getting 5.2 out.

>Now I need some testers and a way to work around the lack of an
>interrupt timer to remove the recursive-ness that Ken mentioned from the
>auto-negotiation.  

Will give it a whirl this weekend. What you want to do is wait for a few
seconds to see if the link can be established, otherwise print a
message, abort and let Etherboot continue, and hopefully the user will
see the message and deal with the link issue.  The Linux driver uses
timers because the OS has to do other things while waiting.

>Ken you mentioned issues with your card not getting past the
>auto-negotiation stage.  Can you provide any additional details?  

It waited for the ready signal and then nothing more appeared on the
screen, I didn't snoop on the wire to see if it sent out a request.
Maybe it did finish the auto-negotiation and was in the poll loop. Maybe
silly me forgot to edit the DHCP config file. I'm hopeful that it will
work this weekend.