grub port of etherboot SiS 900 driver

[Michael Clark]

Hiya,

Here's a patch that adds grub support for the SiS 900 PCI ethernet card.
This is a port from Marty Conner's port of the sis900 driver from
etherboot-5.1.0.

  http://www.metaparadigm.com/grub/grub-0.5.96.1-sis900-0.1.patch.gz

It has been tested and used successfuly although it spews a few compiler
warnings.

BTW - I am using a SiS based thin-client 'book pc' for a network booting
application and unfortunately the bootrom on the SiS motherboard only
does IPX based RPL booting (not DHCP/TFTP). I found a Linux RPL daemon
(*) but needed to use grub as a second stage loader as I couldn't load
recent kernels with 'rpld'.

For those of you with RPL bootroms, the 'pxegrub' image works well with
'rpld' and allows me to load new/large kernels. You just need to add
this to your rpld.conf.

FILE
{
  path = "/rplboot/pxegrub";
  load = 0x7c00;
}
execute = 0x8200;

* rpld - http://gimel.esc.cam.ac.uk/james/rpld/index.html

~mc

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