<div dir="ltr"><div>I restored snponly.efi function with a PoC patch:<br><a href="https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/19447d9c39e06c3d5aabd198736cd23d8e40c870">https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/19447d9c39e06c3d5aabd198736cd23d8e40c870</a><br>
<br></div>I haven't gotten around to cleaning it up, it could be much better.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Michael Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbrown@fensystems.co.uk" target="_blank">mbrown@fensystems.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thursday 02 May 2013 23:14:47 Duane Voth wrote:<br>
> I am right in expecting the snponly ipxe to work nicely with existing<br>
> network devices right? Or perhaps this usage impacts the question above?<br>
<br>
</div>Quite possibly not. EFI doesn't have a clean model for multiple users of an<br>
SNP interface.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Last, at what point does snp ipxe plug into the uEFI stack? Is the ipxe<br>
> dhcp config separate from the EFI dhcp client? (I have noticed two<br>
> different IP addresses being allocated for this same NIC/MAC)<br>
<br>
</div>iPXE's TCP/IP stack is entirely separate from the EFI TCP/IP stack. EFI knows<br>
nothing about addresses obtained using DHCP inside iPXE.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Could ipxe use more of the existing protocols now that edk2 is more stable?<br>
<br>
</div>It could, but it's not going to. iPXE is going to deliberately avoid the EDK2<br>
facilities and limitations. See <a href="http://ipxe.org/efi/vision" target="_blank">http://ipxe.org/efi/vision</a> for the reason why.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Michael<br>
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