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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Etherboot for E100 NIC

To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Etherboot for E100 NIC
From: Yosuke Iwamatsu <y-iwamatsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:19:15 +0900
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Ian Jackson wrote:
Yosuke Iwamatsu writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Etherboot for E100 NIC"):
Currently, Xen has the etherboot rom for hvm guests,
which only supports rtl8139 nic device model.
This patch is intended to support etherboot for e100 nic by:
- adding etherboot rom for e100 nic (provided by rom-o-matic.net).
- making hvmloader scan pci devices, find the first nic device
and load the corresponding etherboot rom.

Thanks.  We'd prefer not to include a binary where we don't have the
source code in the tree and also don't have any of the scripts which
generate the rom from the upstream.

So I will look into alternative ways of providing a suitable e100
etherboot.

Ian.

Do you mean you are going to take the etherboot source code
in xen's tree and generate rtl8139/e100 roms at compile time,
or thinking any other way?

Thanks,
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Yosuke Iwamatsu

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