On 16/09/14 11:25, Andy Medynets wrote:
our board has multiple network chips: 6 x Intel 82574L and 1 x Intel
EG20T pce-gbe(8086:8817, currently not supported). Due to this, ipxe
spends enormously long time probing and initializing available network
interfaces, which is not needed. Only one dedicated network interface
will be used for booting.
Is there a way to [pre]select a single network interface for
initialization and further use?
We're still trying to avoid patching the source code.
GC> Use your own custom embedded script.
GC> http://ipxe.org/scripting
GC> http://ipxe.org/cmd
GC> http://ipxe.org/cfg/busloc
GC> --Gene
My understanding that any scripts get interpreted _after_ the
initialization/device_probing, which takes a long time. Please correct
me if I'm wrong.
Scripts get interpreted after device enumeration, but that should never
take a noticeable amount of time. (Device enumeration merely
established that the hardware is present and resets the NIC to a known
state; it doesn't open the network interface, send/receive packets,
perform DHCP, etc).
If device enumeration is really taking a long time, please try building
with DEBUG=intel to find out what is causing the delay.
Michael
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