[ipxe-devel] Issues with Broadcom NICs in Dell R7625

[Michael Brown]

On 20/01/2023 13:54, Thomas Walker wrote:
> Anyway, I can move forward here.  I have no intention of ever needing to PXE off of bnxt, so I can leave it out.  And the "legacy NIC wrapper" warning appears to be cosmetic.  But I'm willing to debug further if that is helpful since I know you don't have the hardware in question.  It is also worth noting that this hardware was just released, and everything is on "the one and only" firmware versions available.  So it is quite possible that these issues will all clear up as firmware matures.

Thanks for clarifying.  The bnxt driver (authored by Broadcom) has very 
few comments and includes a _lot_ of unnecessary code (14000 lines for 
bnxt compared to 3000 lines for the comparable intelxl driver).  I 
wouldn't even want to start debugging it remotely.  You are very welcome 
to have a go!

For future reference, in case anyone else finding this thread has hit 
problems with bnxt in iPXE and does need to be able to boot from it: the 
iPXE bnxt driver should probably be rewritten in its entirety to be much 
smaller and simpler.

Thanks,

Michael