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8. Acknowledgements

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.

Markus Gutschke

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.

Gero Kuhlmann

The mknbi utilities used by Etherboot are from Netboot. He has also clarified the original specification by Jamie Honan.

Jamie Honan

Jamie started Netboot off by writing the first version that used code from a packet driver.

Martin Renters et. al

The original authors of Netboot on FreeBSD.

Bruce Evans

Created bcc compiler used by Etherboot/16.

Rob de Bath

Current maintainer of bcc.

Gerd Knorr

Contributed MASQ for making a boot floppy without DOS.

Adam Richter

Contributed comboot for making a boot floppy without DOS.

Claus Heine

Contributed patch for serial console and NFS swapping.

Dickon Reed

Contributed display of loading status and a hack for the 3c509 card.

David Munro

Contributed PCI detection code originally from Linux sources.

Charlie Brady

Donated NE2100 card so that a driver could be written. Also helped test LancePCI driver.

Rogier Wolff

Created Intel EtherExpressPro 100 driver and binary to hex converter.

Vlag Lungu

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.

William Arbaugh

Patches for eepro to work with 3.2.

Jean Marc Lacroix

Contributed an improved bin2intelhex.

Jim Hague

Contributed fixes to 3c503 driver for PIO mode, fix to makerom for presetting EPROM bytes, and various endian fixes.


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