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 and associated tools like as86.
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. See the contrib/nfs-swap directory for his Web page.
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, and helped test the LancePCI driver. Spotted bug with 4.1 header code.
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.
Contributed patch for making Intel eepro work in 4.0.
Contributed patches to start32.S from FreeBSD version to make it boot Windoze after answering N to Boot from Network question.
Contributed patches for prepended loaders and makerom to make bootrom PnP and PCI compatible.
Contributed vendor and device IDs for the Netvin NE2000/PCI clone.
Contributed RARP code as alternative to BOOTP/DHCP. Activated by RARP_NOT_BOOTP define.
Contributed a SMC9000 driver.
Contributed an Etherpower II (EPIC 100) driver.
Contributed mntnbi for mounting DOS NBIs.
Contributed a bug fix to the bootmenu code and a patch to main.c to remove looping menus on failure. Also code for ARP replies and TFTP retransmit (#ifdefed). Cleanup of tftp and tftpd.
Found bug due to tu_block being declared signed short in arpa/tftp.h on many platforms when it should be unsigned short.
Contributed a FreeBSD driver for Tulip based cards. Ken Yap ported it to Etherboot. Not tested because code needs to be written for all the variants of the Tulip and also because no hardware available to me.
Contributed a 3c905b driver. Be sure to read the release notes in 3c905b.txt before using.
Contributed patches to use BIOS call to size memory otherwise Etherboot was trampling on top of 640kB area, which is used by some extended BIOSes. Also contributed patches to pci.c to implement PCI bus support on BIOSes that do not implement BIOS32, or incorrectly.
Suggested making the ASK_BOOT prompts more generic and clearer. (Why doesn't SGML-Tools accept üaut;?) Also contributed a DOS utility for extracting the identifier string and PCI IDs, if any, out of the boot ROM.
Contributed various cleanup patches to the code especially in the bootmenu area, as well as a completely revamped start32.S. Also introduced Rainer Bawidamann's code, see next paragraph.
Contributed a Realtek 8139 driver.
contributed a Schneider & Koch G16 driver.
sent in a fix for the WD/SMC8013 which I finally verified.