Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot.zdsk suggestions...
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From: <ke...@et...> - 2003-09-18 09:30:54
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>Ok, if needed I can do it.... but the simplest and fastest way is >building the etherboot.zdsk image, make the floppy, and try it on a PC >without network card (so it will probe everything....): the main target >is having no driver probing infinite times the same network card (so no >ESC will be required...); the second target is having coherent and >limited output from each driver probing... Please take a few moments to document the behaviour and post to this list. >Is it influenced by the order of the object files passed to the >compiler? By the order the object files are specified to the linker. >No problem... the big problem was WHERE to put my hand to prevent this >file to be included in etherboot.zdsk; at the end I changed genrules.pl, >but I'm not really sure it is the right place... It's already commented out in the 5.2.1 I believe. >I think we should provide a simple way to build custom "50 driver in a >single image" image: ie, providing a file with the driver list somone >want to include... >This file could be auto generated during the build process, and the user >can comment/uncomment the drivers he want to include in the final >image... If you would like to look at this and send in some software that would be good. However a multidriver image is only a medium priority item because it would be useful only as a probe floppy, it would be slow as a production floppy. |