On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Michael Chang <mch...@suse.com> wrote: >> >> Right now I am not even able to netboot in QEMU. Booting from CD and >> attempting to read anything over net results in random failure. > > Are you using OVMF from openSUSE Factory
Virtualization repo. > I was actually using it to > test and verify the UEFI netboot, it works for me without problem for > IPv4 and IPv6 network. > This is highly timing dependent so may differ for host, qemu, number and speed of CPU versions etc. >> >> There is patch suggested in bug report >> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?41731 but it currently crashes >> OVMF so I cannot test it. Also it effectively makes multiple efinet on >> single HW card useless anyway (it will open exclusively IPv4 instance >> thus blocking any access to MAC device using SNP). > > Yes, I have to skip that patch to test IPv6 netboot, somehow it doesn't > work with it ... > Try to enable serial console (-serial stdio) and see if OVMF crashed. >> >> So it looks like efinet needs redesign anyway. > > Agreed, but I'm not dare to do that so that's why I created this > workaround patch. > > Let me know should I continue carrying it in the patch set or not? In my > tests, without it somehow the net transfer stalls a lot due to multiple > efinet card instance is configured ... > I have an idea what happens, I'll try to work on it at weekend. It should make your patch unnecessary. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
