Hi, 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' :-)
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 :-(. About the VMWare, I think I can fix the bug soon ---- the same driver works fine in etherboot. 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 :-) 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. Feng Shuo -----Original Message----- From: Yoshinori K. Okuji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 7:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Feng Shuo Subject: Re: Grub-0.95-diskless-patch-1 (Etherboot-5.3.8) On Monday 21 June 2004 10:30, Feng Shuo wrote: > Many thanks to Hans-Peter Jansen, our diskless patch for Grub 0.95 > released, which is based on the etherboot-5.3.8 drivers: Great. > The patch only contains the latest drivers. Some bug fixes (such as > bugs in VMWare and dhcp probe) will be handled in later versions. :-) What do you mean by "dhcp probe"? I don't care about VMWare since it's proprietary, but dhcp support is quite important. Probably what makes me hesitating to apply your patch is that I don't know the status of your patch very well. Could you summarize all problems you know in your patch? Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub