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etherboot-4.0pre3.tar.gz released



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

(Not linked to page.)

Please try it out if you can.  Changes from pre2 are:

+ New driver for NI6510. Just a simple tweak of the lance driver for
different ID bytes and different register offsets. According to the
NI6510 driver in Linux, the NI6510 Etherblaster is more like the NE2100
and would be detected by the NE2100 driver. So use that one instead.

+ One of those "why I didn't think of it before" ideas: A modified version
of comboot, called floppyload, that is prepended to the .rom image rather
than the .com image and then both written raw to a floppy for testing the
bootrom. All we have to do is jump to an entry point in (z)loader that
skips the INT19H stuff. Relocation will happen automatically.  Now the
.com images and comboot are superfluous, unless one is masochistic enough
to want to try to test under DOS.

Added .fd0 targets to Makefile. Saying make <card>.fd0 will make
floppyload.bin and <card>.rom, and cat both to /dev/fd0. Naturally the
drive must be writable and you must have a floppy in the drive.



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