Hi, we are using pxegrub to boot xen on a ProLiant BL20p G2 blade. They come with a tg3.o compatible controller: 01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X Gigabit Eth ernet (rev 02) There is a patch available at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9408 file #1457: grub-0.95-diskless-patch-2.patch.gz added by fengshuo > (399.95KB - application/x-gzip-compressed - Release_2 with new DHCP > vendor tag, fix the sis900 bug ) which adds tg3 support to pxegrub. Works like a charm here :). Applies to 0.96-r2 with some fuzz and one small reject in util/mkbimage.rej. just some $Id$ conflicts. regards Stefan Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i6 86) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /us r/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distribut ions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force - -whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclud e='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups curl dlloader dri eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 im lib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl syslog tcpd truetype truetype-fonts typ e1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xmms xorg xsl xv zip zlib eli bc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux user land_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEO PTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 96096 [details, diff] file #1457 from http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9408 Adding the patch here for conveniance
This is a patch for what exactly?
This patch adds (besides others) support for the tg3 network card to pxegrub, thus enabling us to boot a xen hypervisor on these machines via dhcp/pxe.
Forgot to reopen the bug.
I have NFC what is pxegrub. Need ebuild name for which is this patch.
Sorry if I was unclear, let's try it again. This is a patch fur pxegrub, contained in the ebuild grub version 0.96-r2. It adds support for the netboot enabled grub (namely pxegrub) for tg3.ko supported network cards (and others). AFAICT the patch is taken from the netboot project. It applies with some fuzz and a small reject (only an $Id$ conflict). It works nicely here, we are able to boot XEN on our BL20p G2 Blades via PXE/DHCP with this patch (Braodcom NetExtreme NIC, supported by tg3.ko).
(In reply to comment #6) > This is a patch fur pxegrub, contained in the ebuild grub version 0.96-r2. Yay, finally :) Thanks! :)
at this time, not interested in maintaining such a beast of a patch
ok, what needs to happen that this might go into gentoo as a patch? personally I am only interested in tg3 support, if there is a chance you will integrate it into gentoo I might try to seperate tg3 support from the beastish patch. since we have the hardware I am able to test it.
that depends ... there's not a chance we're going to add something that size the only way i would add it: - you cut out just the tg3 parts - the tg3 parts modify *very little* outside of the tg3-specific driver at the first signs of problems, i would simply punt the patch so re-open if and when you accomplish these things
