[syslinux] Now available for testing: lwIP for PXELINUX
Sebastian Herbszt
herbszt at gmx.de
Fri Apr 22 11:10:33 PDT 2011
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/22/2011 05:08 AM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Eric Biederman has taken the work I did almost two years ago to port
>>> lwIP to Syslinux, and actually gotten it to the point where it is
>>> integrated into the filesystem stack and *working*.
>>>
>>> As such, I have pushed out a new branch "lwip" to the git repository,
>>> for testing purposes, and I have made a 4.10-pre1 prerelease which
>>> includes this code.
>>>
>>> I don't think it is ready for prime time yet, but I would be *very*
>>> interested in hearing people's experiences with it. It currently
>>> supports tftp and http; we will probably be adding ftp shortly.
>>>
>>> -hpa
>>
>> TFTP transfers seem to be way slower with syslinux-4.10-pre1-1-gf5203bf
>> compared to syslinux-4.04-8-gece69c7 on Bochs. Used to be ~10 seconds
>> for 3.8 MB and now it's 2 minutes and 33 seconds.
>>
>
> Which version of Bochs is that, and what network boot stack does it use?
I used Bochs svn r10321 with ne2k (pci) and Etherboot 5.4.2.
> I can imagine this having serious problems with pre-gPXE Etherboot.
Same result with gPXE 0.9.7+.
> It
> would be good to get a test case so we can perhaps find a mitigation
> strategy.
I just boot using PXELINUX and start gfxboot.c32 with my bootlogo438 file.
gfxboot.c32 loads this file (using loadfile()) and this now takes 2 minutes and
33 seconds.
Sebastian
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