[ipxe-devel] UEFI PXE problems with AMD systems

Martin Habets mhabets at solarflare.com
Wed Jul 15 14:22:38 UTC 2020


On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:29:44AM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:
> On 29/04/2020 19:32, Thomas Walker wrote:
> > - Initial BOOTROM dhcp/dns/tftp was completely normal
> > - As soon as ipxe took over, we started seeing trailing, repeating (i.e. the same sequence, but starting in different places on different packets) "garbage" tacked onto the end of outgoing packets, both UDP (DNS) and TCP (HTTP)
> 
> This is odd.  I have seen trailing garbage added before, but only due to
> specific hardware bugs:
> 
>   http://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/commit/89c767bfd

Are you using the hardware driver from iPXE or are you using the NIC UEFI
driver? i.e. are you using ipxe.efi or ipxe.efidrv?

Are you seeing this only with specific NIC hardware or across multiple NIC
vendors?

Martin


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