[ipxe-devel] better chainload native ipxe-driver (i.e. intel) instead of undionly?

Oliver Rath oliver at greenunit.de
Mon Oct 15 12:55:59 UTC 2018


Hi Matt,

thank you for the hint! What is the content of ${product}? Unfortunatly
there is no documentation for this setting on ipxe.org.

Regards,

Oliver



On 15.10.2018 14:51, Matthew Helton wrote:
> Oliver,
>
> I do it all of the time. However depending on the system Architecture,
> BIOS and Driver support, it can and does introduce some problems with
> certain hardware. I use the iPXE variables for ${product} to blacklist
> problematic hardware.
>
> Best,
>
> Matt
>  
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 7:38 AM Oliver Rath <oliver at greenunit.de
> <mailto:oliver at greenunit.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi list,
>
>     does it make sense to chainload an ipxe-binary with native card
>     support
>     instead of undionly? Ich could imagine, this generate more speed i.e.
>     for downloading big files after ipxe-chainloading. In my case I have
>     always the same intel gigabit card with 82574L chip.
>
>     Tfh!
>
>     Oliver
>
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