Re: Trying to boot Vaxstation using mopd

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jun 11, 12:57am, macro%linux-mips.org@localhost ("Maciej W. Rozycki") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Trying to boot Vaxstation using mopd

|  FWIW, I've been successfully using `mopd' regularly with Linux to 
| download 32-bit and 64-bit ELF images to DECstation systems since forever 
| (or ~2001), as I have a unit with REX firmware suffering from a TFTP boot
| support bug.  It continues supporting DEC binary formats and I was able to 
| boot a VAXstation as well as a DECserver 700 piece with it.  It works over 
| FDDI too (a patch was required due to different framing), e.g. to boot 
| from a DEFZA or a DEFTA.
| 
|  Patches at: <ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/mopd/> 
| or grab a complete source RPM package from: 
| <ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/SRPMS/mopd-2.5.3-15.src.rpm>. 
| There are i386 and little-endian MIPS binary packages there as well, 
| although this stuff is a bit dated and may not be an exact fit for a 
| modern Linux installation; tweaking may be required.

Let's merge the changes? Is there anything I am missing?

christos