[ipxe-devel] iPXE Usage with 10GbE HBA

Anton Starikov ant.starikov at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 07:19:52 UTC 2013


Oh, forgot about this detail. ;)
Indeed, my case is irrelevant.

Anton.

On 27 Aug 2013 09:02, "Robin Smidsrød" <robin at smidsrod.no> wrote:
>
> On 26.08.2013 21:46, Anton Starikov wrote:
> > I use ipxe on X520-DA2. But in my case ipxe is supplied by DHCP, so I
can not say much about booting it from USB.
>
> Is that your way of saying that you use undionly.kpxe chainloaded from
> vendor PXE? In that case, you're not really using iPXE drivers.
>
> > In my case it is compiled from git repo, commit
31f5211035cf0434a1b5043f707ecd2316d4a18c.
>
> You should be able to quickly gauge which devices are supported by the
> intelx driver by running this command from the git checkout:
>
> src/util/niclist.pl --format csv | grep intelx
>
> If you chainload http://boot.salstar.sk/lspci you should also be able to
> quickly see what devices are in your machine. That should make it
> trivial to verify if it is supported.
>
> If the PCI vendor/device id is not in the niclist.pl list then you can
> try to add a PCI_ROM() line in intelx.c and recompile and see if it
> works. If it doesn't, the card might need some slight modifications to
> the driver to work.
>
> Remember to build like this if you want to capture an image of the issue:
>
> make bin/ipxe.usb DEBUG=intelx
>
> -- Robin
>
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