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From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ipxe and arm
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 2016年05月11日 21:38, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 05/11/16 15:03, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>   Hi,
>>
>> ipxe gained support for arm and aarch64 efi platforms.  So we could add
>> support to our nic pci roms with the next ipxe update.
>>
>> But: The question is whenever that makes sense in the first place.
>> Support for virtio-net is in edk2, so that is covered already.  The
>> other pci nics are not, but given that virtio-net predates arm
>> virtualization all guests should be able to handle virtio-net just fine.
>> And I doubt anybody seriously prefers rtl8139 or e1000 over virtio-net
>> unless the lack of guest driver support mandates it ...
>>
>> Comments anyone?
> 
> AFAIK all aarch64 OS installers will come with virtio-net drivers on the
> install media.
> 
But if the user doesn't specify a virtio-net nic, then ipxe will fail,
right?

Thanks,
-- 
Shannon