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From: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] avoid unnecessary loading NIC rom.
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:37:26 +0900
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Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 18/12/2008 14:55, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> There's a 'F10 to select boot device' option in rombios, so you can't
>>>> determine this in hvmloader.
>>> Exactly. But if gPXE rom is loaded,
>>> hvmloader cannot load some option ROMs of raal PCI cards.
>>> I suspect we don't use F10 option for PXE boot.
>>> Do you have good idea?
>> Not really. Perhaps scan_etherboot_nic() after pci_load_option_roms(), so the
>> latter takes priority?
> 
> Another possibility is to let option ROMs load up to 0xe9000 rather than
> just 0xe0000. There's nothing in the range 0xe0000-0xe9000 right now; it's
> 36kB of wasted space.
> 
OK. I'll try to use the range 0xe0000-0xe9000.
The range seems to be OK in BBS spec.

Best Regards,

Akio Takebe