Re: [ipxe-devel] ipxe support for Mellanox 15b3:1003

2016-04-12 Thread Maule Mark
Well, no, I'm not sure since I'm pretty new to this. What I want is an iPXE  based image that the dhcp server will serve.  I want this second stage iPXE to initiate a new dhcpdiscover using new dhcp header options, specifically the client id.  This is what I was trying to do in my other thread i

Re: [ipxe-devel] ipxe support for Mellanox 15b3:1003

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 12/04/16 22:32, Maule Mark wrote: I've been trying to find an ipxe src base that supports Mellanox PCI vendor:device ID 15b3:1003. Specifically, I'm trying to get a undionly,kpxe build for x86_64 that will support this device. Are you sure that you mean this? The undionly.kpxe binary conta

[ipxe-devel] ipxe support for Mellanox 15b3:1003

2016-04-12 Thread Maule Mark
I've been trying to find an ipxe src base that supports Mellanox PCI vendor:device ID 15b3:1003.  Specifically, I'm trying to get a undionly,kpxe build for x86_64 that will support this device. I've tried some of the branches under  https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/mellanox/flexboot.git.  The flexboot

Re: [ipxe-devel] custom dhcp client_id option

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 12/04/16 17:08, Maule Mark wrote: Yea, they use client-identifier a lot, but I don't see that they ever say what the id should be, only that it is unique on the subnet. Since in the general case a system might want to have independent ipaddr's from the same subnet assigned to dhcp clients run

Re: [ipxe-devel] custom dhcp client_id option

2016-04-12 Thread Maule Mark
Yea, they use client-identifier a lot, but I don't see that they ever say what the id should be, only that it is unique on the subnet.  Since in the general case a system might want to have independent ipaddr's from the same subnet assigned to dhcp clients running per-port, wouldn't that mean we

Re: [ipxe-devel] custom dhcp client_id option

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 12/04/16 15:29, Maule Mark wrote: But wouldn't that cause issues in the general case? If all of the IB ports will then carry the same client_id, then you can only use dhcp to assign an ipaddr to one of them (in the general case). The client hardware address (chaddr) will still be unique. R

Re: [ipxe-devel] custom dhcp client_id option

2016-04-12 Thread Maule Mark
But wouldn't that cause issues in the general case?  If all of the IB ports will then carry the same client_id, then you can only use dhcp to assign an ipaddr to one of them (in the general case). In my application, I can guarantee that only one port on a host will be issuing dhcp discover reque

Re: [ipxe-devel] custom dhcp client_id option

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 12/04/16 15:04, Maule Mark wrote: I noticed that. However, dnsmasq only considers client_id (if present) followed by hwaddr when looking up configs in its hostsfile. I've tried hacking around that in dnsmasq (by trying to match client_uuid if present and no client_id match), but the code is

Re: [ipxe-devel] putty and ipxe over serial port

2016-04-12 Thread Maule Mark
disabling bios serial console redirection did the trick. Thanks! From: Sergii Kolisnyk To: ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] putty and ipxe over serial port Hi, have you tried CP437 character set? I think it's what console r

Re: [ipxe-devel] custom dhcp client_id option

2016-04-12 Thread Maule Mark
I noticed that.  However, dnsmasq only considers client_id (if present) followed by hwaddr when looking up configs in its hostsfile.  I've tried hacking around that in dnsmasq (by trying to match client_uuid if present and no client_id match), but the code is pretty tangled and it's not clear to

Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH v4 0/4] Implement virtio 1.0 support

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 11/04/16 14:00, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:26:55AM +0200, Ladi Prosek wrote: The goal here is to support booting from modern and transitional virtio-net devices using the new virtio 1.0 protocol. The code strives to comply with the virtio 1.0 spec and is heavily insp

Re: [ipxe-devel] custom dhcp client_id option

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 08/04/16 20:05, Maule Mark wrote: I have a project where it would be useful for me to set a custom client_id when using dhcp to configure a network interface. Specifically, in my case I'd like to pass the SMBIOS uuid as the client_id for an infiniband port instead of the port GUID. In my ap

Re: [ipxe-devel] EFI in .iso and .usb

2016-04-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 04/04/16 10:14, Sergii Kolisnyk wrote: The clean way is per-target-architecture build directories (for object files) I think. Then no need to wait. We have per-target-architecture build directories already. The problem with multi-architecture targets is that the Makefile currently spins up