[gPXE] compress gPXE

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 06:22:11 EST 2010


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Luca <lucarx76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to burn gPXE into my network card's expansion ROM. I was wondering if
> there is a way to compress gPXE. Compiling it as a .rom the size is ~95K (I
> left only HTTPS as download protocol)

gPXE is already compressed.

Which driver are you building in?  It sounds like you need a
HTTPS-only boot ROM, which doesn't need to provide PXE/UNDI.

config/general.h and config/defaults/pcbios.h contain the config
options gPXE ROMs are built with.

I suggest trying the following:
1. Remove SAN stuff (sanboot, iSCSI, and AOE).
2. Remove COMBOOT.
3. Remove all image types except IMAGE_BZIMAGE and IMAGE_SCRIPT.
4. Remove PXE_STACK, PXE_MENU, and PXE_CMD.

Stefan


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