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Etherboot User Manual

Dickon Reed

Contributed display of loading status and a hack for the 3c509 card.

David Munro

Contributed PCI detection code originally from Linux sources.

Charlie Brady

Donated NE2100 card so that a driver could be written, and helped test the LancePCI driver.

Spotted bug with 4.1 header code.

Rogier Wolff

Created Intel EtherExpressPro 100 driver and binary to hex converter.

Vlag Lungu

Contributed patches to work with DHCP. Also contributed a ﬁx to match the received XID against

the transmitted one, important in a network with many requesters.

William Arbaugh

Patches for eepro to work with 3.2.

Jean Marc Lacroix

Contributed an improved bin2intelhex.

Jim Hague

Contributed ﬁxes to 3c503 driver for PIO mode, ﬁx to makerom for presetting EPROM bytes, and

various endian ﬁxes.

Andrew Coulthurst

Contributed patch for making Intel eepro work in 4.0.

Doug Ambrisko

Contributed patches to start32.S from FreeBSD version to make it boot Windoze after answering N

to Boot from Network question. Contributed FreeBSD support and improved serial console support

which is now merged into distribution since version 4.2.8. Minor patches to 4.7.21 to make

compilation under FreeBSD easier.

Alex Harin

Contributed patches for prepended loaders and makerom to make bootrom PnP and PCI

compatible.

Peter Dobcsanyi

Contributed vendor and device IDs for the Netvin NE2000/PCI clone.

adam AT mudlist PERIOD eorbit PERIOD net

Contributed RARP code as alternative to BOOTP/DHCP. Activated by RARP_NOT_BOOTP

deﬁne.