looking for eprom info re 3c905b
Ken Yap
kenyap@research.canon.com.au
Mon Aug 17 21:02:18 1998
>On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Donald Becker wrote:
>[snip]
>> Boot ROMs are special on PCI: the PCI definition explicitly handles them
>> with a specific mapping register. The BIOS is responsible for mapping them
>,
>> and then copying the code into RAM before execution. Since the hardware is
>> simple, most of what can go wrong is in the BIOS.
>
>do you know where I could get more information on this? are the
>header/checksum/other format details different? do you know where I could
>get a package to make pci eproms or the information I would need to modify
>netboot to make them?
I'm putting PnP and PCI headers in Etherboot (www.slug.org.au/etherboot)
at the moment and I got the specs from www.phoenix.com's tech info pages.
Unfortunately there is no Etherboot driver for the 905.