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Etherboot User Manual

Daniel Engstrom

Contributed a SMC9000 driver.

Didier Poirot

Contributed an Etherpower II (EPIC 100) driver.

Martin Atkins

Contributed mntnbi for mounting DOS NBIs.

Attila Bogar

Contributed a bug ﬁx to the bootmenu code and a patch to main.c to remove looping menus on

failure. Also code for ARP replies and TFTP retransmit (#ifdef CONGESTED). Cleanup of tftp and

tftpd.

Nathan R. Neulinger

Found bug due to tu_block being declared signed short in arpa/tftp.h on many platforms when it

should be unsigned short.

David Sharp

Contributed a FreeBSD driver for Tulip based cards. Ken Yap ported it to Etherboot. Not tested

because code needs to be written for all the variants of the Tulip and also because no hardware

available to me.

Greg Beeley

Contributed a 3c905b driver. Be sure to read the release notes in 3c905b.txt before using.

Alex Nemirovsky

Contributed patches to use BIOS call to size memory otherwise Etherboot was trampling on top of

640kB area, which is used by some extended BIOSes. Also contributed patches to pci.c to

implement PCI bus support on BIOSes that do not implement BIOS32, or incorrectly.

Günter Knauf

Suggested making the ASK_BOOT prompts more generic and clearer. Also contributed a DOS

utility for extracting the identiﬁer string and PCI IDs, if any, out of the boot ROM. Contributed a

wake on LAN CGI script.

Klaus Espenlaub

Contributed various cleanup patches to the code especially in the bootmenu area, ﬁxes for the

NE2000 driver, as well as a completely revamped start32.S. Also introduced Rainer Bawidamann’s

code, see next paragraph. Contributed further improvements in Realtek 8139 driver. Did a major

rewrite from 4.4.5 to 4.5.5, see doc/maint/LOG.

Rainer Bawidamann

Contributed a Realtek 8139 driver.