Subject: Re: netbooting an OF 1.0.5 macppc with SUNW,hme on PCI
To: Erik Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/01/2000 11:35:58
> However, a quick perusal of the NetBSD source tree shows that no one 
> has written a PCI frontend (dev/pci/if_hme.c) for the SUNW,hme 
> (probably because this is a moderately rare item, and mostly seen on 
> Sbus). Is this a quick job?

Well, first off, you don't need any support from NetBSD to netboot, so
you could netboot off the Sun card and then use your internal ethernet
after booting.

But it looks like hme is properly split up into bus-dependent
front-end and bus-independent back-end already, so writing a PCI
attachment shouldn't be awful...

-- Dan