[Etherboot-developers] PXE

[<Rob...@ra...>]

Could someone tell me what the state of the PXE code is when trying to use
it with Linux?? When I try

bin32/e1000-ecop.rom,   the code produced works fine :)

when I try

bin32/e1000-ecop.pxe,  the code produced doesn't have the 55 AA signature
and the file seems very small. It also doesn't work.

Incidentally I believe the MAX_BOOTP_RETRIES in etherboot.h should be
reduced to say 5, the current value of 20 results in a timeout of about
30,000,000 seconds or about 9.5 years. 5 gives about 5 minutes. The other
MAX_RETRY values may also need to be reduced.

I have updated makerom with a new compiler flag to produce ROMS in
increments of 2K which is the size that modern BIOSes search in. This is
only important if the amount of option ROM space is limited.

I have made a number of other small changes which I will document and feed
back if anyone is interested.

Robert Cheetham

RadiSys Corporation
5959 Corporate Drive
Houston
TX 77546
713-541-8267
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