From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60265) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9SYf-00041R-TA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:38:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9NFH-0006M6-Kf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:58:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35416) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9NFH-0006Lq-6o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:57:59 -0400 From: Alex Williamson In-Reply-To: <4DA35B0F.3040904@codemonkey.ws> References: <20110411192841.21414.46756.stgit@s20.home> <4DA35B0F.3040904@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:57:51 -0600 Message-ID: <1302551871.3589.83.camel@x201> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] pc-bios: Use iPXE ROMs List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mcb30@ipxe.org On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 14:48 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 04/11/2011 02:35 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > This series replaces our current gPXE based PXE ROMs with iPXE > > versions from the iPXE project (http://ipxe.org). This version > > adds ipxe to our submodules so it can be easily included in > > releases. I'm still including a script for updating these, > > perhaps someone better with Makefiles can eventually adopt this > > to a build target. > > > > This email series is mainly for reference, there's too much > > renaming and replacing binary files to send out to the mailing > > list. I'll strip out the binaries here so the rest can be > > reviewed. For the real code, please pull: > > > > git://github.com/awilliam/qemu.git (ipxe branch) > > > > Thanks to Anthony for already setting up an ipxe mirror. > > Thanks, > > Looks good to me. How different is this from what we've been shipping? > Have you tested PXE boot from the builtin TFTP server and from an > external one (like dnsmasq)? We were shipping v0.9.9, which was tagged 10/2009. There's been a gpxe v1.0.0 release since then, plus the split between ipxe and gpxe. I think Michael is hoping to have a release soon, but the code feels pretty stable to me as is. I've tested external booting from dhcp/tftp server for all the NICs. I'll make a pass through testing with the builtin server and report back. Thanks, Alex