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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] avoid unnecessary loading NIC rom.

To: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] avoid unnecessary loading NIC rom.
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:55:41 +0000
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On 18/12/2008 14:50, "Akio Takebe" <takebe_akio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> There's a 'F10 to select boot device' option in rombios, so you can't
>> determine this in hvmloader.
> Exactly. But if gPXE rom is loaded,
> hvmloader cannot load some option ROMs of raal PCI cards.
> I suspect we don't use F10 option for PXE boot.
> Do you have good idea?

Not really. Perhaps scan_etherboot_nic() after pci_load_option_roms(), so
the latter takes priority?

 -- Keir



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