[ipxe-devel] IPXE and parallels on MAC

[Patel, Kalpesh, US]

Michael,

Did you get a chance to look at my response to this that was sent? Jest of
it was that the patch DID NOT work to resolve the condition below.

Thanks.

On 4/22/14 8:28 AM, "Michael Brown" <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

>On 18/04/14 18:37, Patel, Kalpesh, US wrote:
>>> If you haven't already found the IRC channel (#ipxe on Freenode), then
>>> give it a try: IRC is quite useful for interactive
>>> debugging-at-a-distance.
>>
>> I am signed in there so if you are there then ping me, Kalpesh.
>
>Following on from the IRC debugging session, where we found that we
>could work around the problem by disabling the check for INTEL_IRQ_TXDW
>and always unconditionally polling the TX ring:
>
>Could you try the attached patch against a clean current iPXE tree?
>This will cause iPXE to check for "TX queue empty" alongside "TX
>descriptor written back".  In theory this should be redundant; in
>practice it might work around what currently seems to be an emulation
>bug in the VM.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael
>
>