[syslinux] Problem with 90MB Initrd

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Sep 22 16:29:10 PDT 2015


On 09/21/2015 06:20 AM, Patrick Masotta via Syslinux wrote:
> 
> BTW if you take a minute and read the first report
> https://communities.vmware.com/message/2536774
> You'll realize that VMWare TFTP "surprisingly" does not present slow TFTP transfers
> when they are driven by MS "bootmgfw.efi"; instead the problem is only shown when
> transfers are driven by syslinux.efi; At the moment, despite probably VMware not handling 
> the net driver "polling" correctly, I started to wonder if "we" are really handling the EFI Event 
> engine correctly when performing TFTP transfers within syslinux.efi
> 

It might be a difference between using the TFTP and using the UDP
interfaces, or somesuch.

	-hpa




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