[ipxe-devel] e1000e/8086:1502 not working?

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Fri Dec 16 19:22:04 UTC 2011


On Monday 12 Dec 2011 17:52:56 Levente LEVAI wrote:
> After a false start with the 82571 flavor I have checked kernel driver
> code and
> it turned out that pid 1502 is the new variant of the pch controller
> (found in
> e1000e_ich8lan.c in the ipxe driver) used in new intel family 6 mobile
> chipsets.
> I have more or less dumbly copied the info section from kernel code.
> At first sight it seems to work (the driver initialized the controller
> and I was able
> to get an ip address via dhcp) but I need to do further testing (e.g.
> boot over iscsi).

Fantastic!  Could you submit a patch, so that we can get support for this 
merged into iPXE?

Thanks,

Michael



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