Re: 3c905c support needed for etherboot

[Greg Beeley <Greg.Beeley@LightSys.org>]

Steve_Marfisi@3com.com wrote:

> We did it on the 905b (prevented corruption of the ROM because of early faulty
> USB devices). The 905c is not write protected.
> 
> Not sure about interoperability with Etherboot - but our protocol support is
> absolutely not proprietary. Our BOOTP / DHCP / PXE code adheres to and answers
> most RFC-compliant boot servers that we are aware of , tested on VAX, vmWorks,
> QNX, four different Linuxes, AIX, HP UX, Solaris, Unixware, NT, NetWare (they
> do bootp / tftp with their NFS add-on), OS/2.

Thanks for the info!  I believe there is a PXE loader for the Linux kernel;
was that discussed on this list a while back?

Thanks,

Greg.

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