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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: e1000 and PXE issues
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:28:19 -0400
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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.
> 
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> me directly with any responses.
> 

I think the e1000 driver in gPXE might have bitrotted.

	-hpa