[syslinux] Status of gpxelinux?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/25/2011 02:12 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 04/25/2011 05:20 AM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>> gpxelinux.0 from syslinux-4.04-8-gece69c7 doesn't seems to work on Bochs.
>>> Seems to work slow on QEMU, but fine on VMware.
>>> On Bochs it seems to freeze with
>>> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>>>
>>> Sebastian
>>
>> Which Qemu NIC?
> 
> e1000.

e1000 was still a legacy driver until not all that long ago, quite
possibly including whatever was included with the Qemu that you have (an
Etherboot or gPXE stack.)

>> Also, if you switch Bochs to pnic instead of ne2k, does it work?
> 
> Yes.

I suspect gpxelinux is running into the same UNDI interrupt/poll issue
that the lwIP stack had, and which Michael confirmed had been fixed in
iPXE relatively recently.  Unfortunately, right now iPXE doesn't work
for me at all, so I can't verify that.

	-hpa