Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 14:14:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Libstand/netboot revision, call for review. Message-ID: <199909092114.OAA01735@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:04:23 EDT." <14296.6191.373762.658775@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> > Mike Smith writes: > > > This required some changes to the SRM network driver in the Alpha > > loader, and I've cut it right down with the intention of doing the > > presettable parameters in a different fashion. Diffs at > > http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/alpha-boot.diff > > Do "presettable parameters" include setting the mac address when it > cannot be extracted from the bowels of the SRM? That was part of the plan, yes. Basically, I want to be able to stick arbitrary data into the environment very early on in the piece, and then have things like the SRM net driver pull them out. I don't have a machine that doesn't set the ethernet address in the booted-device string, so I don't know what it looks like in that case. BTW, if you have any idea how to get at all of the _other_ SRM variables (ie. apart from the 20 or so that have numbers), I'd be _very_ interested to hear it, as it seems kinda stupid to go back and bootp again when the firmware has only just done it... -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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