From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBsCN-00066C-6Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:25:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBsCM-0002bC-24 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:25:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QBsCL-0002b6-Ob for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:25:18 -0400 From: Alex Williamson In-Reply-To: <1302551871.3589.83.camel@x201> References: <20110411192841.21414.46756.stgit@s20.home> <4DA35B0F.3040904@codemonkey.ws> <1302551871.3589.83.camel@x201> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:25:08 -0600 Message-ID: <1303147508.3110.75.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 13:57 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > 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, Ping, any reason this isn't going in? Testing passed, I updated the script to use bash and alphabetized the Makefile per Stefan Weil's suggestions. These are updated in the above github tree. Let me know. Thanks, Alex