Subject: Re: Ethernet cards
To: Monroe Williams <monroe@pobox.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/02/1999 16:41:00
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Monroe Williams wrote:

> At 3:31 AM -0700 7/29/99, Matthew Reilly wrote:
> >fission wrote:
> 
> Back when I was trying out linuxppc, I used to be able to successfully 
> netboot my 7500 using built-in ethernet.  The file to be netbooted had
> to be xcoff format with some slight modifications.  Part of the build process
> for xcoff kernels was a taking the xcoff file the standard tools created and
> running it through a small program called "hack-xcoff". 

Right. It's just our opinion that we don't want hack-coff. The objcopy
tool should do what hack-coff does automatically. :-)

Take care,

Bill