The following people have contributed substantially to Etherboot. If you feel your name has been left out, just let me know and I will fix it up.
Co-author of Etherboot. He was the person who ported the Netboot suite from FreeBSD. He has enhanced Etherboot with many features, one new driver and has contributed various utilities and addons.
The mknbi utilities used by Etherboot are from Netboot. He has also clarified the original specification by Jamie Honan.
Jamie started Netboot off by writing the first version that used code from a packet driver.
The original authors of Netboot on FreeBSD.
Created bcc compiler used by Etherboot/16.
Current maintainer of bcc.
Contributed MASQ for making a boot floppy without DOS.
Contributed comboot for making a boot floppy without DOS.
Contributed patch for serial console and NFS swapping.
Contributed display of loading status and a hack for the 3c509 card.
Contributed PCI detection code originally from Linux sources.
Donated NE2100 card so that a driver could be written. Also helped test LancePCI driver.
Created Intel EtherExpressPro 100 driver and binary to hex converter.
Contributed patches to work with DHCP. Also contributed a fix to match the received XID against the transmitted one, important in a network with many requesters.
Patches for eepro to work with 3.2.
Contributed an improved bin2intelhex.
Contributed fixes to 3c503 driver for PIO mode, fix to makerom for presetting EPROM bytes, and various endian fixes.