From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg Kurtzer <gmkurtzer@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000 and PXE issues
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:28:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4888C9C3.2030609@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060807212145o24153cc4s1686d713f2ae41e8@mail.gmail.com>
Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed some problems with the e1000 implementation in kvm >= 70. At
> first glance it seemed liked a PXE problem as it would not acknowledge
> the DHCP offer from the server. I tried several different Etherboot
> ROM images and version 5.2.6 seemed to work. That version isn't PXE
> compliant so I built an ELF image to boot, and it downloaded it very,
> very, very, very slowly (as in about 10 minutes) but it did end up
> working.
>
> This all worked perfectly with version 69 and previous.
>
> Please let me know if there is a need for any further information, or
> anything additional to test.
>
> Please note that I am not subscribed to this email list so please CC
> me directly with any responses.
>
I think the e1000 driver in gPXE might have bitrotted.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-24 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-22 4:45 e1000 and PXE issues Greg Kurtzer
2008-07-24 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-07-26 8:12 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-26 14:24 ` Greg Kurtzer
2008-07-27 17:32 ` Farkas Levente
2008-07-28 2:29 ` Greg Kurtzer
2008-07-28 8:16 ` Amit Shah
2008-07-28 13:12 ` Greg Kurtzer
2008-07-28 18:21 ` Charles Duffy
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