Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:56:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken Message-ID: <199911031856.KAA60751@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199911031824.KAA60287@apollo.backplane.com> <32207.941654299@critter.freebsd.dk> <199911031844.LAA09963@mt.sri.com>
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:> 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. : :FWIW, few of the cards I've bought over the years sport netboot. And, :netboot is an impossibility in 'embedded' systems that use things like :PCMCIA/CARDBUS, which are becoming common-place for embedded routers and :such. : :Netboot (IMO) is an unacceptable solution to many folks. It seems that :'progress' in this case means removing alot of existing functionality :that is used by a number of folks. : :(CDROM root, BOOTP, etc...) : :Nate The day that any of us can walk into a well-stocked CompUSA store and see more then 70% of the network card brands sport a netboot capability out of the box is the day that we can start to think about doing without the kernel BOOTP code. That day may not come for a few years. It certainly isn't here now. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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