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List:       freebsd-alpha
Subject:    Re: Netbooting a Multia with FreeBSD
From:       Peter Jeremy <jeremyp () gsmx07 ! alcatel ! com ! au>
Date:       1999-10-28 0:43:40
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On 1999-Oct-19 08:52:10 +1000, I wrote:
>My problem is that netboot seems unable to accept the DHCP or RARP
>responses returned to its requests.  It just cycles between DHCP
>and RARP requests until it times out.

After some experimenting, it appears that making broken_firmware
a boolean in /usr/src/sys/boot/alpha/libalpha/srmnet.c does not
cover the Multia (at least with SRM 3.8.3).  This SRM is broken
enough to need the MAC address explicitly included in netbbinfo,
but call to prom_read() in prom_get() _does_ need to specify the
receiving structure size (ie the broken_firmware test is not
needed).

Without background on what other varieties of brokenness DEC
implemented in various SRMs, I can't offer a sensible patch.

Peter


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