[ipxe-devel] Enabling myri10ge and intelx 10G Drivers

[Pete Eby]

That is the odd thing, the interfaces do not show with ifstat, nor in
the config menu and there are no errors.

Pete


On 02/21/2014 02:38 PM, Thomas Miletich wrote:
> How did you check/make sure that iPXE doesn't detect your cards?
> Do you get any error URL?
>
> Can you see the interfaces if you enter the iPXE shell and use the
> 'ifstat' command?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Pete Eby <ebypi at ornl.gov
> <mailto:ebypi at ornl.gov>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Thomas,
>
>     Thanks for the tips, I thought drivers may need to be specified.
>
>     I normally build the bin/ipxe.usb and bin/ipxe.iso targets, and my
>     Intel X520 and Myricom pciids are listed in:
>
>      src/util/niclist.pl <http://niclist.pl> --format csv | grep -i intelx
>
>     However, the resulting binaries do not seem to see either of these
>     interface types?
>
>     Thank you,
>     Pete
>
>
>     On 02/21/2014 02:29 PM, Thomas Miletich wrote:
>>     This is done by choosing the right build target.
>>
>>     make bin/ipxe.usb
>>
>>     produces an iPXE image that will contain any drivers(including
>>     intelx and myri10ge), and will be bootable from an usb drive.
>>
>>     make bin/intelx.lkrn
>>
>>     will produce an image in linux kernel format(to be booted from
>>     syslinux, grub, etc), and contains only the intelx driver.
>>
>>     make bin/intelx--myri10ge.usb
>>
>>     Will contain the intelx and myri10ge driver.
>>
>>
>>     Hope that helps
>>     Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Pete Eby <ebypi at ornl.gov
>>     <mailto:ebypi at ornl.gov>> wrote:
>>
>>         I would like to enable drivers for myri10ge and intelx NICs when
>>         building iPXE, but I'm unclear how to do so.
>>
>>         I don't see anything in settings.h, general.h or in net/
>>         files which
>>         specify which drivers to build.
>>
>>         Looking around the documentation did not seem to indicate how to
>>         accomplish this either.
>>
>>         Perhaps I'm just blind, but could someone please point me in
>>         the right
>>         direction?
>>
>>         Thank you,
>>         Pete
>>
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