[gPXE-devel] [PATCH v3][forcedeth] Replace forcedeth driver with native gPXE driver
Stefan Hajnoczi
stefanha at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 07:32:41 EDT 2010
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Andrei Faur <da3drus at gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch adds a native gPXE forcedeth driver and removes the legacy
> Etherboot forcedeth driver. It supports 40 different chips, compared
> to the original 14.
>
> It has been tested on a NIC with an CK804 Ethernet Controller, and
> the results of downloading 5 100mb images in a row have been: 12/11/11/11/11
> seconds; booting DSL using pxelinux also succeeded. The driver has also
> been tested by chaining undionly.kpxe and it worked.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Faur <da3drus at gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Andrei Faur <da3drus at gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Guo-Fu Tseng <cooldavid at cooldavid.org>
> ---
> v3:
> * credited Linux driver
>
> src/drivers/net/forcedeth.c | 3432 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> src/drivers/net/forcedeth.h | 601 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 2589 insertions(+), 1444 deletions(-)
> rewrite src/drivers/net/forcedeth.c (93%)
> create mode 100644 src/drivers/net/forcedeth.h
Thanks, applied!
http://git.etherboot.org/?p=gpxe.git;a=commitdiff;h=b8d214cfb66dcb02e2c56fcf1242edc54a81cc50
Stefan
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