[syslinux] [PATCH] nictype.c32: PXELINUX module to display UNDI NIC bus type...

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/24/2012 01:30 PM, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 02:10:36PM -0500, Shao Miller wrote:
> [...]
>> Since ethersel.c32 can already accomplish more than nictype.c32 and is
>> already included in Syslinux, that's probably best for Torgeir to use,
>> actually.
>
> However, there is a difference between ethersel.c32 and nictype.c32,
> which can be very important in some cases: ethersel.c32 uses IDs of
> all PCI devices in the machine (not even just network cards - I used
> it to detect SATA and RAID controllers), while nictype.c32 uses the ID
> of just a single network card which is actually used for PXE booting.
> If the PCI ID is used to decide what kind of broken PXE workaround
> should be used, and the machine has several different network cards,
> ethersel.c32 may give wrong results.
>

It would be better to make that an option to ethersel instead of doing 
something completely new.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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