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Etherboot User Manual

Adam Fritzler

contributed 3c529 (MCA version of 3c509) support in driver.

Shusuke Nisiyama

contributed a 3c595 (may work for 3c590) driver.

Igor V. Kovalenko

contributed a Winbind W89C840 driver.

Gary Byers

of thinguin.org wrote the LILO preﬁx program lilopreﬁx.S.

Donald Christensen

converted all the as86/nasm .S ﬁles to gas format, thus allowing Etherboot to be built without

requiring as86/nasm.

Luigi Rizzo

contributed a bootloader from FreeBSD that works for both ﬂoppy and hard disk partitions. This

obsoletes ﬂoppyload.S. Patch to do adaptive timeout in NFS booting.

Michael Sinz

contributed patches for loading debug symbols when booting FreeBSD.

Jean-Jacques Michel

contributed patches to the via-rhine.c driver to make it work for the VT6102 model as used on

some DFE530-TX Rev.A3 NICs.

Peter Kögel

contributed patches to the SiS900 driver to make it work for the SiS630e/SiS730s.

Eric Biederman

improved the recovery logic of main.c and lots of other changes. Contributed E820H memory

sizing logic. Reworked PCI logic. Made more compatible with LinuxBIOS. Lots of small ﬁxes.

Reworked the architecture completely to be much more portable. Wrote a lot of new code. A list of

his contributions would take several paragraphs.

Peter Lister and Vasil Vasilev

contributed changes to generate .pxe image that can be booted using a PXE booter.

Fred Gray

contributed changes in tulip.c to check for a duplex connection and to modify the controller register

if so.

Mark G

of Inprimis Technologies contributed another FA311 (National Semiconductor DP83815) driver,

also based on the Donald Becker Linux driver.