[ipxe-devel] Relative interest in snponly.efi?

Jarrod Johnson jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 14:23:11 UTC 2014


Any thoughts on what's happening?  Regretably I doubt I have the requisite
knowledge to dive deeper here..


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For now, the results of the latter:
> iPXE initialising devices...EFIDRV connecting our drivers
> EFIPCI 0x6a054b98 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x5,0x4) cannot read PCI configuration:
> No such device (http://ipxe.org/2c044087)
> EFIPCI 0x6a050a18 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1F,0x6) cannot read PCI
> configuration: No such device (http://ipxe.org/2c044087)
> SNP 0x68c34618
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(000AF7482DF0,0x0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0)
> is the SNP chainloading device
> EFIDRV 0x68c34618
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(000AF7482DF0,0x0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0)
> has driver "SNPONLY"
> EFIDRV 0x68c34618
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(000AF7482DF0,0x0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0)
> disconnecting existing drivers
> EFIDRV 0x68c34618 <NULL> connecting new drivers
> EFIDRV 0x68c34618 <NULL> could not connect new drivers: Error 0x7f37e082 (
> http://ipxe.org/7f37e082)
> ok
>
>
>
> iPXE 1.0.0+ (53653) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware --
> http://ipxe.org
>
> Features: HTTP DNS TFTP EFI Menu
>
> iPXE> ifstat
> iPXE>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:
>
>> On 08/07/14 16:55, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I'm very happy to see snponly.efi and snp.efi concepts available.  That
>>> will make my life much better.  Thanks for that.  I had been strongly
>>> pondering when/if I would ever getting around to help on that particular
>>> front and now I get to be somewhat lazier.
>>>
>>> However, that particular commit seems to have utterly broke things for
>>> me using snponly.efi...
>>>
>>> Using an esxi guest with uefi style boot, snp.efi and snponly.efi do
>>> manage to see the device and even transmit packets, but doesn't seem to
>>> be able to receive.
>>>
>>
>> Strange.  Does "ifstat" (or DEBUG=snpnet) show anything interesting?
>>
>>
>>  Booting with that commit on an IBM x240 server, ifstat sees nothing.....
>>> iPXE initialising devices...SNP 0x68eba918
>>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(000AF7482DF0,0x0) is an SNP
>>> device
>>> SNP 0x68eba918
>>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(000AF7482DF0,0x0) is an SNP
>>> device
>>> SNP 0x69ad8718
>>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(000AF7482DF2,0x0) is an SNP
>>> device
>>> SNP 0x69ad8718
>>> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(000AF7482DF2,0x0) is an SNP
>>> device
>>> ok
>>>
>>
>> Could you try adding DEBUG=efi_driver,efi_pci,snp,snpnet,snponly ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
>
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