[ipxe-devel] How to build a chainloading ipxe on ARM64 platform

[丰立波]

Hello, Mr. Brown,

Thank you very much.



How to build a iPxe only using UNDI/NII or SNP protocol provided by the UEFI platform firmware? The NIC card is very special in our platform, iPxe could not use it.


Thanks.


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Best Regards


Feng Libo
ZD Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd



发件人："Michael Brown" <mcb30 at ipxe.org>
发送日期：2020-08-17 20:23:05
收件人："丰立波" <lbfeng at zd-tech.com.cn>,ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
主题：Re: [ipxe-devel] How to build a chainloading ipxe on ARM64 platform>On 17/08/2020 11:59, 丰立波 wrote:
>> My understanding of chainloading is iPxe will use the local Network 
>> Protocol already installed by UEFI network drivers, instead of 
>> installing its own network protocol. Is that correct? If yes, it is 
>> exactly we want. but we have a ARM64 platform, How to build a 
>> chainloading iPxe. I tried the command:
>
>Yes, iPXE is capable of using the UNDI/NII or SNP protocols provided by 
>the UEFI platform firmware.  It can also use its own native driver 
>(which will usually be faster), if available.
>
>To build, use
>
>   make bin-arm64-efi/ipxe.efi
>
>or
>
>   make bin-arm64-efi/snp.efi
>
>If you are cross-compiling then you will need to specify your 
>cross-compilation prefix.  For example, to build an ARM64 binary on an 
>x86_64 Fedora distro:
>
>   make bin-arm64-efi/ipxe.efi CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu
>
>Michael
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