[syslinux] PXELINUX 4.10-pre*

Sebastian Herbszt herbszt at gmx.de
Wed May 4 15:47:01 PDT 2011


Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> Gene Cumm wrote:
>> So far I tested PXELINUX from 4.10-pre12, 4.10-pre9 and 4.10-pre6.
>> The first two take a long time with a TFTP file not found and
>> eventually find my file but error out (presumably to kaboom).  The
>> last takes a long time, does a lot of retransmitted packets (didn't
>> watch the first two), then eventually loads the file but continues
>> this behavior for TFTP and HTTP transfers.  This is on VMware Server
>> 2.0.2-203138 in Linux using the DHCP server that comes with VMware
>> Server, the PXE ROM from VMware Server (info below) and tftpd-hpa 5.0.
>> 
>> HPA, if there's a test you'd like me to try (patch, different -pre,
>> etc) let me know.
>> 
>> PXE ROM strings:
>> 
>> Network boot from AMD Am79c970A
>> Copyright (C) 2003-2005  VMware, INC.
>> Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation
>> 
>> 
>> UNDI code segment at 9ECC len 0A0D
>> UNDI data segment at 9C7F len 24D0
> 
> 4.10-pre1 works in my VMware Player 3.0.0; 4.10-pre2 doesn't work anymore
> (really slow config file loading).

2fa8eb93e5b2fc684d27f018c0a84341eaed5476 is the first bad commit
commit 2fa8eb93e5b2fc684d27f018c0a84341eaed5476
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 22 15:57:33 2011 -0700

    lwip: handle UNDI stacks which need to be polled

Sebastian




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