Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10 May 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Huh? Both the current Dual Athlon and the Dual P4 Xeon boards I have > > access to have 512KByte parts. > > You're right. This is an actualy FWH part, I did not notice. Which means I > can get a MByte in there ... I'll have to learn how to use it. > > > But the bottom line is however much you shrink a linux kernel dedicated > > non-optimal polling drivers will still be smaller. > > As long as they work ... etherboot 5.0.6 still won't work correctly on my > PCM-5823, and etherboot-5.0.5 will, which is just odd. I can't see what's > different between the rtl8139 drivers (after I fixed the 5.0.6 version) > but 5.0.6 still comes up and configures the interface incorrectly.
On that score it might not hurt to discuss this on the etherboot-developers list. I agree that it is unfortunante the initial scope of the project was widened into device driver for bootloaders. But there is no easy solution for that. The best we can do is build a bootloader that works no matter what kind of BIOS you are using so it gets a larger testing, and developer base. Eric
