<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/4/16 Michael Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbrown@fensystems.co.uk" target="_blank">mbrown@fensystems.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Monday 15 Apr 2013 22:44:43 Joshua C. wrote:<br>
> Your patch fixed my problem. I tested this several times with files as big<br>
> as 25MB (f18 kernel and initrd) and those worked fine. The system booted<br>
> without any problems. Here is my configuration patch (I know it has<br>
> redundancies but currently I don't have much time to fix it, and it still<br>
> works!).<br>
<br>
</div>Glad the patch works for you. Unfortunately it can't be applied as a general<br>
solution. If PMM allocation fails (which is not uncommon), then iPXE has no<br>
way to shrink itself, so we have to be pessimistic in reporting our runtime<br>
size.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is there a way to test at runtime if PMM works? If so maybe this can help?<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">
> I cannot see the pci bios version?!? Maybe this is because it have<br>
> a custom ipxe string?<br>
<br>
</div>Most likely because you have BANNER_TIMEOUT set to zero; the ROM banner<br>
probably disappears before you have a chance to see it.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Michael<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div> <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'll test later today with a git-version and post the pci-version.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've been wondering of the manufactorer can do something about this 128kb-orom-limit? I'll explain to them what caused the problem as well as why they cannot reproduce it at their side. On the other hand I have an efi-bios which should be capable of overcomming the limitations of the old pc-bios. Any ideas if and how the manufacturer can help (if they're willing to do so, of course)?<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>--joshua
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