Re: Grub-0.95-diskless-patch-1 (Etherboot-5.3.8)

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 05:08, Feng Shuo wrote:
> Some tg3 cards are very slow in dhcp (maybe it's a bug in driver),
> and someone reported that it didn't work right in the environment
> with more than one dhcp servers. ---- I don't know how to fix them
> now, for these codes are just the same as Etherboot :-( ---- I call
> them two as 'dhcp probe bug' :-)

Ok. It sounds not very important.

> There are also problems in PCI PnP mechanic of diskless patch on some
> blade servers and IBM R series notebooks. They have buggy PCI BOIS
> which may lead grub to probe the NIC as a Realtek 8139 :-(. That
> always drive me crazy for GRUB is not an OS and dose not have such
> complex PnP support to fix that error ---- it just hang up :-(.

When you don't compile the rtl8139 driver, what happens? Does it work 
flawlessly?

> And, there are also a lot of compiling warnings, which are caused by
> the different compiling parameter between GRUB and Etherboot. I'll
> fix them with the VMWare bug :-)

Probably they are ignorable.

> Now I have four types of cards: 3c90x/rtl8139/eepro100/e1000, every
> patch will be tested on each of the four cards before release. I am
> sure that at least these four drivers work in any patch.

Thank you for your information. Now I'm convinced that I should apply 
your patch as soon as possible. :)

I hope I will have some time for your patch in this weekend.

Okuji