[PATCH] Etherboot for E100 NIC

[Yosuke Iwamatsu <y-iwamatsu@ab.jp.nec.com>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Yosuke Iwamatsu writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Etherboot for E100 NIC"):
>> Currently, Xen has the etherboot rom for hvm guests,
>> which only supports rtl8139 nic device model.
>> This patch is intended to support etherboot for e100 nic by:
>> - adding etherboot rom for e100 nic (provided by rom-o-matic.net).
>> - making hvmloader scan pci devices, find the first nic device
>> and load the corresponding etherboot rom.
> 
> Thanks.  We'd prefer not to include a binary where we don't have the
> source code in the tree and also don't have any of the scripts which
> generate the rom from the upstream.
> 
> So I will look into alternative ways of providing a suitable e100
> etherboot.
> 
> Ian.

Do you mean you are going to take the etherboot source code
in xen's tree and generate rtl8139/e100 roms at compile time,
or thinking any other way?

Thanks,
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Yosuke Iwamatsu