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etherboot-4.0pre2.tar.gz released



In http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/

(Not linked to page.)

These are only the src*/ files. In a 3.2 distribution, remove src*
and extract. Please test and report any problems.

Main changes from 3.2:

+ Merged in Vlad Lungu's patches for DHCP support, ifdef'ed by DHCP_SUPPORT.

+ Merged in William Arbaugh's patches to make eepro driver work properly.

+ Add to contrib/ better bin2intelhex from Jean Marc Lacroix.

+ Removed support for NFS_BOOT; only TFTP booting supported now.

+ Removed support for linear images; only tagged images supported now.

+ Removed PRIORIZEBOOTPKERNEL and BOOTPKERNELONLY. Bootp reply must
specify kernel name.

+ Bug fix for 16 bit version of 3c509 driver: sign bit propagation bug.

+ Revert to non-pausing versions of out[bw] and inb for NEx000 driver
because of reports of timimg problems on some cards.

+ New drivers for 3c507 and NI5210, both of which use the i82586
chip. 3c507 driver only responds after second bootp request. I
seem to remember something about this problem of losing the first
packet after initialisation in early Linux discussions. NI5210 driver
suffers same problem and is not reliable at all, receives TFTP packets
sporadically. Probably timing problems.  I am also now convinced that
Intel designers have weird minds. BTW, NI5210 driver assumes 8k RAM
because if you put the ROM on the NIC you can only have 8k RAM. If you
are putting the ROM off-board and you want 16k, well, talk to me.

+ Call nic_disable routine just before jumping to loaded image. This
does nothing in most drivers, but may have side effects as the nic_reset
routine used to be called instead.



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