From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pete Zaitcev Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:51:10 +0000 Subject: Re: Compiling sunlance as a module Message-Id: <20040330175110.38eb7f2a.zaitcev@redhat.com> List-Id: References: <20040330234412.GB5439@artsapartment.org> In-Reply-To: <20040330234412.GB5439@artsapartment.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:25:25AM +0000, C.Newport wrote: > All supported 32bit sparc machines come with a sunlance NIC, so > why would you want this as a module ?. You are always going to > need it. JavaStation-NC, JavaEngine-1, CP-1200 all have HME. Solaris never supported those, but Linux is better. > There is a slightly more obscure issue here - Not all Sun machines > have a working CD drive so the ability to boot from the network for > both installations and troubleshooting is highly desireable. > Booting from a device which needs a module is not a good idea. On sparc, initrd is easy to piggyback onto the kernel, so it should pose no problem to netboot over a modular sunlance. Please refer to arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c. -- Pete