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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] avoid unnecessary loading NIC rom.


  • To: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:55:41 +0000
  • Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:55:57 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [Patch] avoid unnecessary loading NIC rom.

On 18/12/2008 14:50, "Akio Takebe" <takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> There's a 'F10 to select boot device' option in rombios, so you can't
>> determine this in hvmloader.
> Exactly. But if gPXE rom is loaded,
> hvmloader cannot load some option ROMs of raal PCI cards.
> I suspect we don't use F10 option for PXE boot.
> Do you have good idea?

Not really. Perhaps scan_etherboot_nic() after pci_load_option_roms(), so
the latter takes priority?

 -- Keir



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