[ipxe-devel] can snponly.efi run without NII protocol installed?

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Wed Aug 19 13:26:20 UTC 2020


On 19/08/2020 11:48, 丰立波 wrote:
> The network interface controller in our platform only installs the SNP 
> protocol, not install NII protocol. Is snponly.efi dependent on NII 
> porotocol? now after chainloading snponly.efi, the function of autoboot 
> can't find any network device in our platform, and then enter the shell. 
> Is NII protocol necessary for the snponly.efi?

No, you do not need an NII protocol.  iPXE will work with your 
platform's SNP protocol.

You can build iPXE with DEBUG=efi_driver,snpnet to see any errors 
arising during detection of the NIC.

Michael


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