From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Anoob Soman <anoob.soman@citrix.com>
Cc: ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] tools/firmware: Build ipxe as a standalone ROM
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:21:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe392fc8-725b-0627-e03b-426b4b8bd799@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5AABB61502000078001B2B11@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On 16/03/18 11:18, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> @@ -113,6 +114,11 @@ endif
>>
>> mv $@.new $@
>>
>> +ifneq ($(ETHERBOOT_ROMS),)
>> +$(ETHERBOOT_ROM): $(ETHERBOOT_ROMS)
>> + cat $^ > $@
>> +endif
> I don't understand this: How can the bare concatenation of multiple
> binary blobs produce anything usable? How will the consumer know
> where the boundaries are, and which one is which?
These details are all covered in the option ROM/PnP metadata. See
scan_etherboot_nic()/scan_option_rom() in hvmloader.
~Andrew
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-15 17:31 Make iPXE a standalone ROM Anoob Soman
2018-03-15 17:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] tools/firmware: Build ipxe as " Anoob Soman
2018-03-16 11:18 ` Jan Beulich
2018-03-16 11:21 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2018-03-18 1:30 ` Doug Goldstein
2018-03-19 7:48 ` Jan Beulich
2018-03-19 13:52 ` Doug Goldstein
2018-03-15 17:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] tools/firmware: #define IPXE_PATH Anoob Soman
2018-03-21 15:18 ` Wei Liu
2018-03-26 15:53 ` Anoob Soman
2018-03-15 17:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] libxc: Allow loading of firmware modules for HVM guest Anoob Soman
2018-03-18 1:32 ` Doug Goldstein
2018-03-19 14:31 ` Anoob Soman
2018-03-21 15:17 ` Wei Liu
2018-03-26 15:51 ` Anoob Soman
2018-03-15 17:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] libxl: Load iPXE ROM from a file Anoob Soman
2018-03-18 1:34 ` Doug Goldstein
2018-03-21 15:25 ` Wei Liu
2018-03-26 15:51 ` Anoob Soman
2018-03-15 17:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] hvmloader: Use iPXE ROM loaded from a standalone file Anoob Soman
2018-03-16 11:26 ` Jan Beulich
2018-03-16 11:44 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-03-17 16:54 ` Doug Goldstein
2018-03-19 14:24 ` Anoob Soman
2018-03-19 15:21 ` Jan Beulich
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