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Re: loadable module support for Etherboot?




Marty Connor wrote:
> 
> Someone asked if it was possible to use a kernel with "loadable module
> support" turned on with Etherboot.  I told them that I had never built
> one that way, but then I got to wondering. It seems like it might work.

So long as your network card driver is compiled into the kernel, the
other
devices could be modules (sound,parallel,serial,etc...)

Or, you can create an initial ramdisk (initrd) and append that to your
kernel
and it will be downloaded along with the kernel.
Then, all of your drivers can be modules, including the network driver.

Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org
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