Re: network support

[Vincent Guffens]

Marco Gerards wrote:

[...]

> > Also, if we add a tftp command, what should we do with the downloaded
> > file. Maybe it would be convenient to have some kind of ramfs to be
> > able to copy the files there ?
>
>
> Why?  The loader could load the file into memory, no?

it is just that I was thinking about tftp'ing module in the filesystem 
and loading them from there or something like that but it not necessary 
now.

> > What should I do now ? It is not practical to send a patch as they are
> > many news files coming directly from etherboot. Would it be an idea to
> > have a new netboot branch in the cvs so that it would be possible to
> > experiment with it without breaking anything else ?
>
>
> Perhaps it would be better to wait until you have things working?  I
> could test rtl8029, rtl8139 and some other cards I forgot about.

yes but I was just thinking about other people who would like to work on 
it meanwhile. As I have never done that before, it might take some time 
and I might not be able to do it at all. But, ok it is a good start to 
have this lspci working. I go back to work and see how it goes.

cheers !

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