[gPXE] Best supported PCIe NIC?

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Robbie (Gmail)
<andrew.robbie at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to identify which in-production PCI Express NICs have
> good gPXE support. So, far example, I am pretty sure the D-Link
> DGE-560T is a Marvell Yukon, using the sky2 driver, and I can buy it.
>
> Can anyone supply any other (NIC retail name, chipset, driver) tuples?
> I am particularly interested in any Intel or Broadcom Tigon 3 (tg3)
> NICs.

There is no official list of preferred NICs.  Check
http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-git/gpxe.git/contrib/rom-o-matic/ for
the list of drivers.

Additionally, gpxebot on #etherboot IRC on chat.freenode.net can check
for gPXE support given a PCI ID:
<stefanha> gpxebot: lspci 10ec:8139
<gpxebot> rtl8139

Hope this helps!

Stefan