From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yosuke Iwamatsu Subject: [PATCH] Etherboot for E100 NIC Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:19:15 +0900 Message-ID: <479F19C3.3090002@ab.jp.nec.com> References: <479E6049.7020908@ab.jp.nec.com> <18335.4256.33853.366768@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18335.4256.33853.366768@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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, --------- Yosuke Iwamatsu