[ipxe-devel] [PATCH ipxe] build: Enable IPv6 for qemu

Christian Nilsson nikize at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 16:39:16 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>> We already have the named config mechanism.  I wonder if building a BIOS
>> option ROM for a real NIC is sufficiently specialised that it would make
>> sense to have a CONFIG=rom or CONFIG=minimal named configuration.
>
> Maybe name the configs "rom64k" or "rom128k", to make clear they are
> stripped down to keep the size below a certain limit?
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd

How common is it to build EFI roms, compared to building ipxe.efi or
snponly.efi?
On IRC, roms is quite rare topic compared to non rom builds, but maybe
that's because those that build roms don't have that many questions.
My preferred default would be IPv6 enabled for EFI but not PCBIOS, but
focus on the most frequent build/usecase.

Adding "rom64k" and "rom128k" sounds like a good basics to then
disable features from the normal?

/Christian



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