On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:53:36PM +0100, Michael Brown wrote: > On 18/09/2020 02:10, 丰立波 wrote: > > I am testing the iPxe on a MIPS platform, the final image of snponly is > > about 900kB, and the network driver of the UEFI has some problem, it is > > very slow when downloading the iPxe image, and always fails with > > timeout. And even worse, the UEFI is already deployed, can't be changed. > > So, I think it could work to make a small iPxe image with the minimal > > functionalities for the defective UEFI. > > There is no existing MIPS port of iPXE. I am assuming that you may have > modified the build process to support MIPS. In doing so, you would have > needed to provide implementations for several per-CPU-architecture > functions. > > My guess is that you have probably chosen to link in an external C library > in order to achieve this, and that the bulk of your code size is coming from > this external library. > > Without seeing your modified code, we cannot sensibly help you. You will > need to publish the code in accordance with the GPL at some point anyway, > so you may as well publish it now.
For what it is worth: QEMU, https://www.qemu.org/ , has a MIPS target. Regards Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel