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From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] PXE bootings
Date: Tue,  5 Apr 2005 17:16:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d65e97ac5f9c50fb07135d2b8d87fc5@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <326b1be2f08a560b17aa908b52831779@coraid.com>

As a software person, I'd say that you have to mess with the phys
because of incompetent hardware design.  Yes, the phys should just
come up in a usable state.  But more and more (crap) hardware now
requires software to be intimately familiar with it and configure it
before it can be used.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-06  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-05 22:20 Brantley Coile
2005-04-05 23:53 ` jmk
2005-04-06  0:03   ` Brantley Coile
2005-04-06  0:15     ` jmk
2005-04-06  0:16     ` geoff [this message]

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