[ipxe-devel] [romprefix] Regression within AMI BIOS

[Michael Brown]

On Monday 25 Jun 2012 23:09:15 Anton D. Kachalov wrote:
> Recently I've faced a problem with BIOS Option ROM embedding. From the
> bisecting I've found a problem commit:
> 
> $ git bisect bad
>  9e8d431a0d58caba3c5f65d4e30fd259d2f782e1 is the first bad commit
>  commit 9e8d431a0d58caba3c5f65d4e30fd259d2f782e1
>  Date:   Sun Jun 10 18:25:26 2012 +0100
>      [romprefix] Add a dummy ROM header to cover the .mrom payload

Thanks for doing the bisect!

Could you describe the problem?  Specifically, what do you see on-screen?

> Also, I have a problem on AMI that doesn't support PMM, with ROM bigger
> than ~58400 bytes. BIOS complains about:
> 
>     "Insufficient Runtime space for MPS data. System may operate in PIC or
> Non-MPS mode"
> 
> and then
> 
>     "Unknown BIOS error. Error code =004B".
> 
> And asks for F1 every time. However, PXE works.
> 
> PS. Mobo is Asus KGP(M)E-D16.

I don't think there's anything we can do about that.  If the ROM were attached 
to a NIC (rather than embedded within the BIOS) then using a .mrom image might 
help.  As it is, if the BIOS doesn't support PMM then iPXE can't do anything 
to reduce its consumption of option ROM space.

Michael