Re: [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH] make undionly robust against drivers that drop interrupts

Shao Miller <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:11:43 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.gpxe,gmane.network.etherboot.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've carbon-copied the gPXE mailing list, since this is gPXE-related.  
http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe

I am of the opinion that we have at least a couple of gPXE NIC drivers 
which do not cause their NIC to generate interrupts for use by the UNDI 
consumer.  These are fUNDImentally broken and should be addressed on a 
per-driver basis versus on the undinet driver as a consumer.  Fixing the 
NIC drivers ensures PXE compliance; once compliant, the need to hack the 
consuming undinet driver disappears.

That's good that Thomas' fix worked out (yay!) in this instance.  Thanks 
again for identifying this bug, Alex.

- Shao Miller