Re: [grub PATCH] efinet: disable MNP background polling

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

14.10.2015 04:01, Yinghai Lu пишет:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:53:44PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>> Hatayama-san, would you consider implementing MNP-based driver for GRUB?
>>> Having at least proof of concept available for testing would be good.
>>
>> Are we sure that we want to migrate to MNP? As I saw others (e.g. PXELINUX,
>> iPXE) use SNP and it work for them.
>>
>> If yes then I can post my unfinished rebase work for Solaris GRUB2 MNP patches.
>> I did that for our internal needs, however, I did not finish it because usptream
>> GRUB2 solved our problems. Well, patches are very raw, based on very old GRUB2
>> (Apr 2012) and do not build. However, maybe they could be a good starting point
>> for further work.
>
> I ported that on top of grub2 upstream this January. It is based on
> upstream of 2015-01-28.
> so need to revert 4fe8e6d f348aee c52ae40 49426e9 cf2b4a3 from current upstream.
>

Do you also observe problems with current upstream?

> We (x86 system group) have used it internally for a while. It solved
> all the uefi pxe booting
> problems that we met with grub2, like 1g intel supper slow, or 10g
> intel does not even start.
>
> Thanks
>
> Yinghai
>