Re: [Qemu-devel] ipxe and arm

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 05/11/16 15:51, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> On 2016年05月11日 21:38, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 05/11/16 15:03, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>   Hi,
>>>
>>> ipxe gained support for arm and aarch64 efi platforms.  So we could add
>>> support to our nic pci roms with the next ipxe update.
>>>
>>> But: The question is whenever that makes sense in the first place.
>>> Support for virtio-net is in edk2, so that is covered already.  The
>>> other pci nics are not, but given that virtio-net predates arm
>>> virtualization all guests should be able to handle virtio-net just fine.
>>> And I doubt anybody seriously prefers rtl8139 or e1000 over virtio-net
>>> unless the lack of guest driver support mandates it ...
>>>
>>> Comments anyone?
>>
>> AFAIK all aarch64 OS installers will come with virtio-net drivers on the
>> install media.
>>
> But if the user doesn't specify a virtio-net nic, then ipxe will fail,
> right?

I don't understand the question, sorry. How can ipxe fail if ipxe is not
made available to the guest, in any NIC's PCI option ROM BAR?

Thanks
Laszlo