Re: Cannot Compile mknbi-blkdev

[markus@infoscape.com]

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Gero Kuhlmann writes:
 > Ken Yap <ken@syd.dit.csiro.au> wrote:
 > > I confess that in 3.1 I put mknbi-blkdev in the Etherboot archive under
 > > contrib because Gero omitted it in recent netboot releases but I didn't
 > > test it out in the netboot directory (btw current version is 0.6.1).
 >
 > I did not include it into netboot because it's functionality is already
 > within the bootrom.

With "etherboot", users get to decide whether they want to enable
block device support in the EPROM. If for some reason they decided to
compile without block device support, then "mknbi-blkdev" gives them
the choice to still boot from local devices if they change their mind
at a later time.


Markus

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