Re: [syslinux] Etherboot and gpxe
Joyce Yu <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.etherboot.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Michael, I added the driverxx.c and driverxx.h to the src/drivers/net, and did " make". I kept getting some warnings: [DEPS] drivers/net/hxge.c make: Warning: File `bin/deps/exe.media.d' has modification time 2.7e+04 s in the future What else need to be modified to add a new driver? Thanks, Joyce On 08/02/09 13:39, Michael Brown wrote: > On Friday 31 July 2009 00:22:29 Joyce Yu wrote: > >> <snip> >> xxxx_probe() does some HW initialization, but leave some to the >> xxxx_open(). This is the difference between etherboot xxxx_probe() and >> gpxe xxxx_probe(), am I right? >> --------------------------------------- >> >> I want to know if both implementations are working? What is the benefit >> if the new ones are used? >> > > Both implementations are working. The old-style Etherboot API is there simply > because no-one has yet taken the time to convert all of the old drivers. > > The advantage of using the gPXE API is that you can support multiple NICs in a > single system, non-blocking TX, zerocopy TX, and minimal-copy RX. > > No new drivers should be added at this point using the old-style Etherboot > API. It's generally easier to program to the newer gPXE API anyway. (With > the gPXE API you don't have to do things like assemble the Ethernet header > yourself.) > > Moving discussion to the Etherboot list, since syslinux is not the right forum > for this kind of question. > > Michael > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Etherboot-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-discuss > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Etherboot-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-discuss