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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 1995 19:34:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        martin@victor.innovus.com (Martin Renters)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: netboot for each card?
Message-ID:  <199504030234.TAA26782@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504030234.WAA16955@victor.innovus.com> from "Martin Renters" at Apr 2, 95 10:34:40 pm

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> I was just looking at that recent changes made to include the 3C509
> support.  It seems netboot has now expanded past the 16K boundary,
> making the ROM version as distributed useless.  We could bump the size of
> the ROM image to 32K, but some cards may not work with ROMs of that size.
> 
> I was wondering if it makes sense to build a netboot.rom for each of the
> supported cards.  This would leave us with a smaller that 16K rom image
> (hopefully) for each of the cards which could then actually be used by
> somebody.

How about just making sufficient ...rom files that none of them is
above 16k.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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