Subject: Re: /usr/mdec/*.rom
To: Michael Kukat <michael@bsdfans.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/26/2003 22:23:21
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:12:10PM +0100, Michael Kukat wrote:
> Hi !
>
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > does anyone actually use it (3c509 version)?
> >
> > i would like to be sure before actually writing EPROM
>
> Oh, there is something, nice to know :)
>
> I did some netboot stuff using etherboot to boot some kind of terminals and
> mp3-players running NetBSD from a NetBSD box. You have to compile the grub
> stuff in Linux, but then you can boot NetBSD without any troubles. ROMs are
> made with http://www.rom-o-matic.net/
>
> So in case the delivered images don't work, you can fall back to this.
> But if you try the ROM images in /usr/mdec, i also would be interested in
> results (or if anyone else tries/tried it).
So would I, since I have some trivial changes [1] to the source
that it would be nice to be able to test!
David
[1] mainly using .code16 so that gas generates the bytes you want it to.
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