Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] pc-bios: Use iPXE ROMs

[Alex Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:57 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 14:48 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 04/11/2011 02:35 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > This series replaces our current gPXE based PXE ROMs with iPXE
> > > versions from the iPXE project (http://ipxe.org).  This version
> > > adds ipxe to our submodules so it can be easily included in
> > > releases.  I'm still including a script for updating these,
> > > perhaps someone better with Makefiles can eventually adopt this
> > > to a build target.
> > >
> > > This email series is mainly for reference, there's too much
> > > renaming and replacing binary files to send out to the mailing
> > > list.  I'll strip out the binaries here so the rest can be
> > > reviewed.  For the real code, please pull:
> > >
> > > git://github.com/awilliam/qemu.git (ipxe branch)
> > >
> > > Thanks to Anthony for already setting up an ipxe mirror.
> > > Thanks,
> > 
> > Looks good to me.  How different is this from what we've been shipping?  
> > Have you tested PXE boot from the builtin TFTP server and from an 
> > external one (like dnsmasq)?
> 
> We were shipping v0.9.9, which was tagged 10/2009.  There's been a gpxe
> v1.0.0 release since then, plus the split between ipxe and gpxe.  I
> think Michael is hoping to have a release soon, but the code feels
> pretty stable to me as is.
> 
> I've tested external booting from dhcp/tftp server for all the NICs.
> I'll make a pass through testing with the builtin server and report
> back.  Thanks,

Check, tested virtio-net-pci, e1000, rtl8139, ne2k_pci, pcnet, and
i82550 using builtin server, with bootfile and tftp loaded
kernel/initrd.  All work.  Thanks,

Alex