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Document Ethernet card reqs for SRM boot. Note that 8255x (fxp)

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does not currently work correctly on alpha.
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chip-based), Qlogic family and NCR/Symbios. Be aware of the machine-specific
bootability issues for the various adapter types.
- Ethernet: if you want to boot your Alpha over the Ethernet you will
obviously need an Ethernet card that the SRM console recognises. This
generally means you need a board with an 21x4x Ethernet chip as that is
what Digital used. These chips are driven by the FreeBSD 'de' (older driver)
or 'dc' (newer driver). Some new SRM versions are known to recognise the
Intel 8255x ethernet chips as driven by the FreeBSD 'fxp' driver. But beware:
the 'fxp' driver is reported not to work correctly with FreeBSD/alpha (although
it works excellently on FreeBSD/x86).
- FibreChannel: the Qlogic QL2x00 FibreChhannel host adapters are fully
supported.