Re: [ipxe-devel] double null byte in dns_make_name()

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 28 Dec 2011 07:50:56 Christian Hesse wrote: > the dns resolver from current git does not work for me. Taking a look at > the network layer I found there's a double null byte added in > dns_make_name() causing the nameserver to not understand the query type > and class. The attached pat

Re: [ipxe-devel] vmxnet3 port

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 06 Jan 2012 18:28:00 Pete Holland wrote: > I'm not sure if I'm seeing your rx completion issue. When I watch the > number of completions, I get 0 or 1 per rx_poll call. I would expect > 2 completions per poll if it were waiting for two packets before > writing the completions to guest m

Re: [ipxe-devel] vmxnet3 port

2012-01-06 Thread Pete Holland
I just wanted to quickly say thank you so much for posting your port. It is much cleaner and easier to work with than the linux driver. I still am not sure what is materially different in what you did for initialization than what I had, but since this port is all around better, I'll just start wit

Re: [ipxe-devel] Query on UEFI iPXE boot

2012-01-06 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Instead of targeting *specifically* the device, I'd build snponly.efi. This is akin to undionly.kkpxe. I have successfully gotten it to work, but with some emulex firmware I've been messing with iPXE is having difficulty doing DHCP with SNP while I see no problems on any other nics (intel, broadco

Re: [ipxe-devel] vmxnet3 port

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 06 Jan 2012 08:51:47 Alessandro Salvatori wrote: > so, ipxe never does polling for packets. a la Linux NAPI? It does; the problem is that the RX completion descriptors for the first packet is not written into the guest's memory until the second packet has been received. So far, I have

Re: [ipxe-devel] SAN iso boot to install Win8 to SAN question..

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Brown
On Friday 06 Jan 2012 02:30:23 Jarrod Johnson wrote: > So normally I'd do a typical PXE boot of WinPE to install to a new san, but > in this case I have a little complexity that prevents that at the moment. > > So I used tgtd to give me two luns, a blank drive as lun 1 and a windows > install ISO

Re: [ipxe-devel] Query on UEFI iPXE boot

2012-01-06 Thread Sanjeev.Roy
Hi All, Do we have any readme that suggests how we can execute iPXE UEFI boot? We tried UEFI IPXE boot with an Intel igb CNA. The device ID was 10c9. We built 808610c9.efi. However while trying the UEFI iPXE boot using the .efi file we could see that the client is able to successfully download t

Re: [ipxe-devel] vmxnet3 port

2012-01-06 Thread Alessandro Salvatori
so, ipxe never does polling for packets. a la Linux NAPI? thanks! -Alessandro- Here i am, A young man, A crashing computer program, Here is a pen, write out my name... (from: The Servant - Orchestra) On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 05:31, Christopher Barry < christopher.ba...@rackwareinc.com> wrote: