Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:38:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386 Makefile.inc Makefilesrc/sys/b Message-ID: <200003281438.JAA87487@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <38E07966.E9A5500A@newsguy.com>
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On 28-Mar-00 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> >> - The biggie: Add in support for booting off of PXE-enabled network >> adapters. Currently, we use the TFTP API provided by the PXE BIOS. >> Eventually we will switch to using the low-level NIC driver thus >> allowing both TFTP and NFS to be used, but for now it's just TFTP. > > How is the reliability problems being handled for now? Or did you > actually manage to find the bug? For now we still have the 1 ms delay in pxe_tftpread(). The focus now is more on getting PXE with UNDI to work, presumably making this problem a moot point. However, I wanted to preserve what we had at the moment for history's sake at least. Also, it seems to work most of the time with the delay in there. Note that I didn't stick this stuff in -stable. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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