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Re: etherboot-4.1 pre2 released



>> This contains Alex Harin's patches to make PnP and PCI compatible ROMs.
>> I have not had the time to improve it; the ROM is not quite PnP conformant
>> and makerom needs to accept some command flags to set things, but release
>> early and often, as Eric R counsels. I am not able to test this as I
>> don't have a PCI MB so please have at it and send me any improvements
>> for the next version.
>
>I think is pretty conformant. If the vendor and device ID does not match
>the ones of the card, the mobo will not boot the PROM :-)
>Vlad

Ah, but I probably have to provide an option for makerom to set the
vendor and device ID to that of other cards then, because at present
it's hardwired to Intel EEPRO. :-(



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