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From: "James Harper" <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
	"Gianni Tedesco (3P)" <gianni.tedesco@citrix.com>
Cc: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@eu.citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fix etherboot option ROM loading
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:33:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77D01A0A27D@trantor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C84FA40E.18CEF%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>

> The only way we'd see other IDs is if someone passed through a real
device,
> and in that case there's no guarantee it'd be an e1000 or rtl8139
anyway. In
> which case they'd need to build their own gpxe image anyway.
> 

Wouldn't PCI passthrough map through the option ROM on the PCI adapter
though, negating the need to use gPXE? I'm don't think I've met a
network adapter in quite a few years that didn't have some form of PXE
support built in.

James

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-28 18:07 [PATCH] Fix etherboot option ROM loading Gianni Tedesco
2010-06-28 18:44 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-28 18:57 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-29 12:01   ` Gianni Tedesco
2010-06-29 12:22     ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-29 12:30       ` Gianni Tedesco
2010-06-29 12:47         ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-29 12:33       ` James Harper [this message]
2010-06-29 12:52         ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-29 12:24     ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-29 12:39       ` Gianni Tedesco

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