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Date:      Wed, 03 Nov 1999 19:38:19 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GENERIC build broken 
Message-ID:  <32207.941654299@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:24:43 PST." <199911031824.KAA60287@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <199911031824.KAA60287@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:
>:I'm offended, and a little amused.  You say "you aren't listening to 
>:what I'm saying", yet you have quoted a paragraph in which I say
>:"... it doesn't require any buy-in from motherboard vendors."
>:
>:Are you calling me a liar, or stupid, or are you not reading what I'm 
>
>    No, I'm just giving you the reality.  Until I can buy *generic*
>    motherboards and/or ethernet cards that actually netboot, what
>    standards a few of them might use is moot.

I think most if not all the ethernet cards I or my customers
have bought over the last year have sported mighty fine netboot
capabilities.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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