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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:41:34 -0700
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David Miller wrote:
> 
> I don't like it because it means people have to setup full initrd's
> in order to do network booting with such network cards.
> 

klibc could help with that, if there is interest in exploring that
avenue again.

	-hpa