On Mon, 25 Dec 1995 19:45:04 GMT 
 mycroft@deshaw.com (Charles Hannum) wrote:

 > The rbootd in FreeBSD won't work correctly on little-endian machines.

Actually, I wasn't even aware that FreeBSD _had_ rbootd in their tree.  
Our CVS logs indicate that John Brezak imported it from Utah sources in 
early 1994.  That point aside, I remember helping a fellow in Texas get 
rbootd working on his FreeBSD system ... It was either Scott Reynolds or 
Mike Hibler that found the bug; FreeBSD's ethernet drivers want the 
packet length field in a different byte-order from ours, and thus rbootd 
fails on FreeBSD systems while it works on NetBSD/i386 systems.

Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the patch.  If Scott or Mike are 
listening, and happen to have it, I'd certainly appreciate getting a copy 
so I can check it in, wrapped inside an #ifdef __FreeBSD__/#endif.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
NASA Ames Research Center                               Home: 408.866.1912
NAS: M/S 258-6                                          Work: 415.604.0935
Moffett Field, CA 94035                                Pager: 415.428.6939