From: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mcb30@ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc-bios: Use iPXE ROMs
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:24:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7FE71D.9060805@mail.berlios.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110315164902.11804.77678.stgit@s20.home>
Am 15.03.2011 18:00, schrieb Alex Williamson:
> Refresh PXE ROMs from the iPXE project (http://ipxe.org). This
> includes moving eepro100 to use standard naming and including a
> script to easily refresh PXE ROMs from either a local git tree
> or the upstream project. We include the 'git describe' output
> in the resulting product name, making it easy to identify and
> reproduce.
The name used for eepro100 was the result of this discussion thread:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-01/msg00729.html
So you could as well change all other rom names.
iPXE default names like 80861209.rom are nice, too.
But there are more important problems than rom naming.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> Anthony - I've skipped actually including the binary diffs here to
> be friendly to the mailing list for review. You can reproduce them
> with the included script. Note that pc-bios/gpxe-eepro100-80861209.rom
> is moved to pc-bios/pxe-eepro100.bin when doing the commit. I'll be
> happy to tar up the commit if you prefer. I've tested these ROMs using
> ipxe v1.0.0-492-g23daab1.
>
> Makefile | 2 -
> hw/eepro100.c | 2 -
> pc-bios/README | 9 ++
> pc-bios/gpxe-eepro100-80861209.rom | Bin
> pc-bios/pxe-e1000.bin | Bin
> pc-bios/pxe-eepro100.bin | Bin
> pc-bios/pxe-ne2k_pci.bin | Bin
> pc-bios/pxe-pcnet.bin | Bin
> pc-bios/pxe-rtl8139.bin | Bin
> pc-bios/pxe-virtio.bin | Bin
> scripts/refresh-pxe-roms.sh | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 11 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 pc-bios/gpxe-eepro100-80861209.rom
> create mode 100644 pc-bios/pxe-eepro100.bin
> create mode 100755 scripts/refresh-pxe-roms.sh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-15 17:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc-bios: Use iPXE ROMs Alex Williamson
2011-03-15 17:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-03-15 19:08 ` Alex Williamson
2011-03-15 22:24 ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2011-03-15 22:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2011-03-16 18:48 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-16 19:15 ` Alex Williamson
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