When compiling a Javastation kernel with netbooting capabilities, one should take care of the following things:

Please take a look at the KernelStatus page.

kernel options

• Code maturity level options
  • Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
• General setup
  • Support for PCI and PS/2 keyboard/mouse
  • Networking support
• Console drivers
  • Frame-buffer support
    • Support for frame buffer devices
    • PCI framebuffers
    • IGA 168x display support
    • Support only 8 pixels wide fonts
    • Sparc console 8x16 font
• Networking options
  • Packet socket
  • TCP/IP networking
  • IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
  • IP: DHCP support
• Network device support
  • Network device support
  • Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT support
• Unix98 PTY support
  • Unix98 PTY support
  • (256) Maximum number of Unix98 PTYs in use (0-2048)
• File systems
  • /proc file system support
  • Network File Systems
    • NFS file system support
    • Provide NFSv3 client support
    • NFS file system support

compiling

instead of building a bzImage (which is typically for i386 kernels), we are going to build a vmlinux:



do not forget to convert the image to a.out format, if you are going to netboot: