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Date:      Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:57:45 -0600
From:      "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), ambrisko@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, erich@jake.lodgenet.com, erich@jake.lodgenet.com
Subject:   Re: netboot & ELF kernels 
Message-ID:  <199901141957.NAA89266@jake.lodgenet.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:56:14 %2B0100." <199901141656.RAA29888@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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Luigi Rizzo writes:
>> Supporting any card that has a FreeBSD driver isn't that tough, you don't
>> really need programming specs other than the driver source (although
>> it is nice).  Tricker is actually burning the flash image.
>
>well it depends on the driver. Unless you have done some substantial
>work towards the integration with your fxp port, i remember the "ed"
>driver is significantly different (more complex) from
>the "ns8390.c" code, so backporting one driver to netboot is not easy.
>At least this was my experience with the "de" driver (things might be
>simpler for "pure" FreeBSD drivers such as fxp or the recent vintage of
>DEC clones from Bill Paul)

Yea, any of the drivers that can handle multiple cards won't be as easy,
but if you can hack out everything 'cept the interesting part, you're
in business ;-)  sometimes cvs history is your friend ;-)

>
>	cheers
>	luigi
>-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------
>  Luigi RIZZO                      .
>  EMAIL: luigi@iet.unipi.it        . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione
>  HTTP://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/  . Universita` di Pisa
>  TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522     . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
>-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------
>

Eric
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Eric L. Hernes
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