Catching up with email after 1.2...
In message <199609130027.KAA18646@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>
Simon Burge writes:
>On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:26:01 -0700  Erik Bertelsen wrote:
>
>> However, the experience i have from the V-kernel
>> at Stanford suggests that newer PROMS for ioctl-asic machines
>> (e.g.,  the ones shipped as an FCO to installed machines to make them
>> able to boot from CD-ROM) simply do not boot well from TFTP at all.
>> Only MOP booting really works reliably  on these PROMS.  (Even the
>> small V secondary bootloader  failed to boot via TFTP.)
>
>I've haven't got PROM revision numbers handy, but I have *ONE* 5000/240
>that boots via TFTP.  We probably have another 20 or so /240's around
>here that have a slightly older revision PROM that don't work.  Anyone
>know how to upgrade the PROMS?  At first glance, I couldn't even find
>the damn things...
>
>> If that is the case for your machine,  I think porting  the
>> NetBSD/vax MOP server to Decstations (adding ELF binary support
>> to it) may be necessary.
>
>I've got an old mop server (somewhere) that I was going to do this
>with, but at the moment, it's firmly in the "much later on" basket.
>

Maybe Mats O. Jansson (sp?)'s MOP server could be extended to  support
ECOFF as well as a.out?   Who's working on that for vaxes?

I dont see a lot of gain in the *BSD community supporting multiple
MOP servers....