[gPXE] compress gPXE

[Luca]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> OK. Is compression enabled/disabled by
#define COMPRESS 1

in src/arch/i386/libprefix.S?


> Which driver are you building in?


I can use rtl8139 or e1000.


>  It sounds like you need a
> HTTPS-only boot ROM, which doesn't need to provide PXE/UNDI.
>

Yes.
So with the configuration settings you suggested, PXE and UNDI will not be
in the .rom image, right?


>
> 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.
>
>
Thanks a lot.

Stefan
>
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