[gPXE] [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH] make undionly robust against drivers that drop interrupts
Shao Miller
Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
Mon Nov 30 22:11:43 EST 2009
I've carbon-copied the gPXE mailing list, since this is gPXE-related.
http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
I am of the opinion that we have at least a couple of gPXE NIC drivers
which do not cause their NIC to generate interrupts for use by the UNDI
consumer. These are fUNDImentally broken and should be addressed on a
per-driver basis versus on the undinet driver as a consumer. Fixing the
NIC drivers ensures PXE compliance; once compliant, the need to hack the
consuming undinet driver disappears.
That's good that Thomas' fix worked out (yay!) in this instance. Thanks
again for identifying this bug, Alex.
- Shao Miller
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