On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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.
That sounds good. I just wanted to make it clear to people who aren't familiar with the bootstrap that after driver support is there, the rest will 'just work'. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
