Re: RFC: UEFI/PXE and emulating grub-legacy-uefi-hacked behaviour

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 25.04.2012 02:16, Richard Chan wrote:
> 5. I have looked at the existing GRUB net+efinet stack. During my
> simple testing I have to be unaable to trigger the code path where
> grub populates the grub_net_structure from the UEFI PXE code. This
> occurs in grub_efi_net_config_real()  in
> grub-core/net/drivers/efi/efinet.c.
The information from EFI network is used only if efinet is embed in
grub.efi. Otherwise you have to call net_bootp manually
> When I do
> grub> insmod efinet
> grub> net_ls_cards
That's not what is expected. Could you try debug where
grub_efinet_findcards in efinet.c stopped?
> grub> net_ls_addr
> I cannot see any information from the PXE boot (i.e. I have booted
> grub using UEFI PXE and I expected the efinet structures - at least
> one of the cards - to be populated from PXE).
>
> Nevertheless, since the UEFI/PXE stack works independently of Grub,
> would it be ok to bypass the whole grub/net/drivers infrastructure and
> use UEFI directly, as what grub-legacy currently does?
No. You basically say "code A has a bug, let's throw it away and write
code B, which will have other bugs". Such approach is unmaintainable.

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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