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Re: Does grub crash UNDI service?


From: Tobias Wollgam
Subject: Re: Does grub crash UNDI service?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:16:18 +0100
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> I’m working on the UNDI driver of the GRUB diskless patch. The driver
> (from etherboot-5.3.5) now works fine before I do any I/O operations.
> That is, the diskless GRUB can do DHCP proper, but dies on
> downloading kernel. It even dies on loading kernel from local disk
> (the disk gets busy and GRUB doesn't respond any more). Two points
> are suspicious: 1.    UNDI is resident in the high end of the lower
> memory and
> modifies the BIOS FBMS (at 40:13h) to avoid being crashed by the OS
> (i.e. GRUB) to load. After loaded, the Etherboot UNDI driver will
> release some unused UNDI data, allocate new space to install UNDI API
> and modify the FBMS to the new value. ---- I don't know where the
> GRUB always examines FBMS before it tries to write on the high end of
> the lower memory. If not, GRUB may have crashed the UNDI data before
> it call the driver again :(
> 2.    UNDI uses interrupt, so the UNDI driver set a
> 'trivial_irq_handler' after it is initialized. That seems to work
> fine at start, but I don't know whether it conflicts with grub I/O
> mechanic after grub get control. (The driver uses only one irq
> specified by UNDI ROM, but do not uninstall it until it is disabled)
>
> If the problem is fixed, we could support any NICs with PXE with it
> :). Many thanks.

I have the undi driver working, but not with all nics .... should we 
work together?




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