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Stefan Hajnoczi e4419ff97c [virtio] Replace virtio-net with native iPXE driver This patch adds a native iPXE virtio-net driver and removes the legacy Etherboot virtio-net driver. The main reasons for doing this are: 1. Multiple virtio-net NICs are now supported by iPXE. The legacy driver kept global state and caused issues in virtual machines with more than one virtio-net device. 2. Faster downloads. The native iPXE driver downloads 100 MB over HTTP in 12s, the legacy Etherboot driver in 37s. This simple benchmark uses KVM with tap networking and the Python SimpleHTTPServer both running on the same host. Changes to core virtio code reduce vring descriptors to 256 (QEMU uses 128 for virtio-blk and 256 for virtio-net) and change the opaque token from u16 to void. Lowering the descriptor count reduces memory consumption. The void opaque token change makes driver code simpler. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>		14 yıl önce
contrib	[errcode] Remove unused contrib/errcode scripts	14 yıl önce
src	[virtio] Replace virtio-net with native iPXE driver	14 yıl önce
COPYING	Initial revision	19 yıl önce
COPYRIGHTS	[build] Rename gPXE to iPXE	14 yıl önce
README	[doc] Re-add README file	14 yıl önce

iPXE README File

Quick start guide:

   cd src
   make

For any more detailed instructions, see http://ipxe.org