[ipxe-devel] Image Load is gone?

[Michael Brown]

On Thursday 02 May 2013 23:14:47 Duane Voth wrote:
> I am right in expecting the snponly ipxe to work nicely with existing
> network devices right?  Or perhaps this usage impacts the question above?

Quite possibly not.  EFI doesn't have a clean model for multiple users of an 
SNP interface.

> Last, at what point does snp ipxe plug into the uEFI stack?  Is the ipxe
> dhcp config separate from the EFI dhcp client?  (I have noticed two
> different IP addresses being allocated for this same NIC/MAC)  

iPXE's TCP/IP stack is entirely separate from the EFI TCP/IP stack.  EFI knows 
nothing about addresses obtained using DHCP inside iPXE.

> Could ipxe use more of the existing protocols now that edk2 is more stable?

It could, but it's not going to.  iPXE is going to deliberately avoid the EDK2 
facilities and limitations.  See http://ipxe.org/efi/vision for the reason why.

Michael