Re: Etherboot 4

[gwest@celerity.com (Glenn West)]

We have a working smc9000 driver. I'd be glad to give it out if someone
wants it.


At 11:52 PM 9/11/98 +0200, markus@infoscape.com wrote:
>Hi Daniel,
>
> > I am currently developing a SMC9000 driver for use with etherboot 4,
> > but I have run in to some trouble.
>
>Great! Can you submit this driver Ken when it is ready?
>
> > I have gotten to a state where I can boot and download a tagged image, 
> > but when it executes only the sign on message shows up, eg. "Linux Net
> > Boot Image Loader" then it seems to hang. This happens with images
> > buildt with mknbi from both etherboot 4.0 and netboot 0.8.1.
>
>The only thing that I can think of off the top of my head is that you
>might be running out of space. There are some very strong restrictions 
>on how much memory space you can use for the driver. Maybe the stack
>starts overwriting some crucial code?
>
>Other than that, my only suggestion is putting lots of debugging
>output into the code and tracing exactly how far it gets. This is very 
>work-intensive and boring but it will eventually yield results ---
>trust me, I had to do that a couple of times ;-)
>
>
>Markus
>
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>            not constitute an offical statement by Infoscape!
>
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