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.