Re: [E1000-devel] Slow netboot with I219-V NIC

2019-12-04 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 10:56 AM Eddy Geez wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 6:22 PM Alexander Duyck > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:40 PM Eddy Geez wrote: > > > > > > BLUF: > > > Is there any way to bring the interface physically up immediately > > > when the e1000e driver loads so auto-n

Re: [E1000-devel] Slow netboot with I219-V NIC

2019-12-04 Thread Eddy Geez
I'm also curious about these comments in the iPXE source code if anybody has any insight. (The NIC comes up and establishes link very quickly in iPXE.) /** The i219 has a seriously broken reset mechanism */ #define INTEL_I219 ( INTEL_NO_PHY_RST | INTEL_RST_HANG ) from: https://git.ipxe.

Re: [E1000-devel] Slow netboot with I219-V NIC

2019-12-04 Thread Eddy Geez
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 6:22 PM Alexander Duyck wrote: > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:40 PM Eddy Geez wrote: > > > > BLUF: > > Is there any way to bring the interface physically up immediately > > when the e1000e driver loads so auto-negotiation can start? > > > > Greetings! > > > > I am evaluating s

Re: [E1000-devel] Slow netboot with I219-V NIC

2019-12-03 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:40 PM Eddy Geez wrote: > > BLUF: > Is there any way to bring the interface physically up immediately > when the e1000e driver loads so auto-negotiation can start? > > Greetings! > > I am evaluating some Intel NUCs that will be diskless and rely on > PXE netbooting. > > I