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Date:      Wed, 01 May 96 12:51:15 PST
From:      "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, phk@critter.tfs.com
Cc:        kallio@cc.jyu.fi, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ** Someone experience making Boot ROM for Ethernet card?
Message-ID:  <9604018309.AA830977363@ccgate.infoworld.com>

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> > We are trying to make boot roms to SMC Elite. We have 27512 UV ROMS but
> > SMC seems not to work with them, the ROM code is not visible at D800 as it
> > should.
> > 
> > It seems that 3c509 works. Is there some trick how to get SMC Elite to use
> > the ROM?
> 
> The eprom may be too big for the SMC, it may max out at 27128...

Another possibility: you may be forgetting to put the signature at the
beginning of the ROM. It includes a special sequence (consisting of 5's and
A's) followed by a byte containing the size of the ROM divided by 512
bytes. Initialization code is expected to follow immediately thereafter.

--Brett




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