[ipxe-devel] Support for Solarflare 10Gb Cards

[Daniel Browne]

Unfortunately I know nothing about driver development, and the code
certainly does not look like it has "drop in" simple elements that can be
transplanted. Perhaps I should contact the manufacturer.

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

> On 15/05/15 21:31, Daniel Browne wrote:
>
>> Does iPXE support or plan to support 10Gb ethernet cards manufactured by
>> Solarflare? Even from the latest code base I cannot seem to build a kpxe
>> image that will boot properly off one of their cards. After loading the
>> kpxe image, booting always halts with error code 040ee119 trying to
>> initialize the network interface even though it succeeded in the initial
>> stage since it is able to get the image in the first place.
>>
>
> The Solarflare PXE stack is (AFAIK) still built from iPXE, though the
> codebase has been maintained separately for a number of years now.
>
> If you obtain the latest Solarflare code (under GPL), it should still be
> possible to add the driver files to the iPXE tree.
>
> Michael
>



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