[ipxe-devel] How to add a driver?

Fri Feb 17 09:47:07 UTC 2017

Hi!

I am also very interessted in getting Allied Telesis fiber nic to work under iPXE.
We don't use this excact card, but it has the same Vender/Device ID (14e4:16a7).

It only works with undionly.kpxe.
We would really appreciate getting this to work with native iPXE drivers (Broadcom/tg3).

Regards,
Torgeir

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   1. Re: How to add a driver? (Short, Kermit)
   2. Re: How to add a driver? (Christian Nilsson)

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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 22:21:48 +0000
From: "Short, Kermit" <kermit at lanl.gov>
To: Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org>, "ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org"
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Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] How to add a driver?
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Greetings!
  In regards to my earlier reply:
   The Allied Telesis 2916SX card has a Broadcom controller on it, and uses Vender/Device ID of (14e4:16a7).  I note that this vendor/device pair is on the "Expected to Work" list and does call out the tg3 (Tigon3) Broadcom driver.

   That said, when I try to boot a system using the stock iPXE boot ISO, I am unable to 'ifopen' the interface, and the system hangs in a Hard Freeze.  Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Best regards,
Kermit Short
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From: Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 6:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] How to add a driver?

On 06/02/17 16:13, Short, Kermit wrote:
>     I'm looking for some help adding a driver to iPXE that will
> support the Allied Telesis 2916SX Fiber NIC.  I've looked at FAQs but
> I don't see any topics close to that.  Might anyone know where I can start?

What are the PCI IDs for this NIC, and which driver does it use under Linux?

Thanks,

Michael

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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 23:50:06 +0100
From: Christian Nilsson <nikize at gmail.com>
To: "Short, Kermit" <kermit at lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] How to add a driver?
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Hi,
14e4:16a7 is already included in the tg3 driver:
https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/blob/HEAD:/src/drivers/net/tg3/tg3.c#l870
You could test building with make bin/ipxe.iso DEBUG=tg3:3,tg3_hw:3,tg3_phy:3 that will give you all the debug output that is possible, you might want to just use DEBUG=tg3 at first and see if that gives you anything.

/Christian

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Short, Kermit <kermit at lanl.gov> wrote:
> Greetings!
>   In regards to my earlier reply:
>    The Allied Telesis 2916SX card has a Broadcom controller on it, and uses Vender/Device ID of (14e4:16a7).  I note that this vendor/device pair is on the "Expected to Work" list and does call out the tg3 (Tigon3) Broadcom driver.
>
>    That said, when I try to boot a system using the stock iPXE boot ISO, I am unable to 'ifopen' the interface, and the system hangs in a Hard Freeze.  Any suggestions would be appreciated!
>
> Best regards,
> Kermit Short
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>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2017 6:41 AM
> To: Short, Kermit; ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
> Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] How to add a driver?
>
> On 06/02/17 16:13, Short, Kermit wrote:
>>     I'm looking for some help adding a driver to iPXE that will
>> support the Allied Telesis 2916SX Fiber NIC.  I've looked at FAQs but
>> I don't see any topics close to that.  Might anyone know where I can start?
>
> What are the PCI IDs for this NIC, and which driver does it use under Linux?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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