[ipxe-devel] Relative interest in snponly.efi?

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Tue Jul 8 16:40:54 UTC 2014


On 08/07/14 16:55, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> I'm very happy to see snponly.efi and snp.efi concepts available.  That
> will make my life much better.  Thanks for that.  I had been strongly
> pondering when/if I would ever getting around to help on that particular
> front and now I get to be somewhat lazier.
>
> However, that particular commit seems to have utterly broke things for
> me using snponly.efi...
>
> Using an esxi guest with uefi style boot, snp.efi and snponly.efi do
> manage to see the device and even transmit packets, but doesn't seem to
> be able to receive.

Strange.  Does "ifstat" (or DEBUG=snpnet) show anything interesting?

> Booting with that commit on an IBM x240 server, ifstat sees nothing.....
> iPXE initialising devices...SNP 0x68eba918
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(000AF7482DF0,0x0) is an SNP
> device
> SNP 0x68eba918
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(000AF7482DF0,0x0) is an SNP
> device
> SNP 0x69ad8718
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(000AF7482DF2,0x0) is an SNP
> device
> SNP 0x69ad8718
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x1)/MAC(000AF7482DF2,0x0) is an SNP
> device
> ok

Could you try adding DEBUG=efi_driver,efi_pci,snp,snpnet,snponly ?

Thanks,

Michael



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