> > > Doug A. > > > One of atleast a couple people netbooting ELF kernels, starting to think > > > people > > > don't care about netbooting anymore. > > > > I'm just waiting for you to finish the job; the loader needs network > > support too (there is actually WIP on this, let me know if you need > > more information). > > Note that the bootp/dhcp and nfs code in libstand works perfectly (I use > it for netboot on the alpha) so all that is needed is drivers.
Yup; the WIP at the moment is driver support and infrastructure - on the Alpha you're just using SRM for the network, wheras on i386 there's somewhat more work to do. It sounded like another week or so would see some preliminary results. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
