[ipxe-devel] Image Load is gone?

[Jarrod Johnson]

I restored snponly.efi function with a PoC patch:
https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/19447d9c39e06c3d5aabd198736cd23d8e40c870

I haven't gotten around to cleaning it up, it could be much better.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk>wrote:

> 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
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