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

Christian Nilsson nikize at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 05:56:58 UTC 2020


You can find some build target documentation at
https://ipxe.org/appnote/buildtargets

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, 03:51 丰立波, <lbfeng at zd-tech.com.cn> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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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