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

[丰立波]

Thanks, Geert, I will follow your advice.


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Feng Libo
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发件人："Geert Stappers" <stappers at stappers.nl>
发送日期：2020-08-18 17:08:59
收件人："丰立波" <lbfeng at zd-tech.com.cn>
抄送人：iPXE <ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org>
主题：Re: [ipxe-devel] How to build a chainloading ipxe on ARM64 platform>On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:56:58AM +0200, Christian Nilsson wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, 03:51 丰立波, <lbfeng at zd-tech.com.cn> wrote:
>> > 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
>> > 
>> > 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.
>> >
>> You can find some build target documentation at
>> https://ipxe.org/appnote/buildtargets
>> 
>
>Advice: Split the problem in two seperate problems
> 1: Have iPXE running on your ARM device
> 2: Get the special NIC running under iPXE
>
>
>Request: Use separate email thread for the separate problems
>
>
>Wish:  patches
>
>
>
>Groeten
>Geert Stappers
>
>P.S.
>See the problem as a challenge  or as a job   8^)
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