On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:46 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 06:46:57PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote: > > Hi Laszlo, > > > > Using the QEMU shipped edk2 bios, for i386, it boots very quickly to > > the EFI shell. > > > > $ qemu-system-i386 -nographic -pflash edk2-i386-code.fd > > > > However with x86_64, it takes a very long time to boot to the EFI > > shell. It seems it got stuck in the PXE boot. Any ideas? > > One year ago ia32 efi netboot support was dropped (and you are the first > who noticed 😎 ). > I guess not many people play with ia32 these days :) > > commit 9ed02fbb847277bef88dbe6a677cf3e5f39e5a38 > Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> > Date: Wed Jul 22 12:24:35 2020 +0200 > > ipxe: drop ia32 efi roms > > UEFI on ia32 never really took off. Basically the BIOS -> UEFI shift > came too late, x64 was widespread already, so vendors went from BIOS > straight to UEFI on x64. > > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> > > > > I checked the boot manager, and it seems only 64-bit edk2 bios has > > built-in PXE boot while 32-bit does not. > > It isn't edk2 but the nic boot roms, but yes, lack of pxe support on > ia32 is the root cause. > Got it. > > Any idea to speed up this whole PXE boot thing? > > qemu -nic none ? > Yep this works. Thanks a lot! Regards, Bin
