PXE boot

Sinha, Prokash psinha at panasas.com
Wed Sep 3 16:12:04 UTC 2014


Hi All,

I'm trying to understand the invocation of the routines pxe_init(); pxe_open()   etc.  in pxe.c

By the structure, it looks like a driver with devsw_pxedisk = { entry points …}

Once this pxeldr is brought down from the net boot server, how does it get invoked ( or rather who calls these routines ) ??? The loader ( strapped with it don't seem to call).

I assume that the the boot code in the NVRAM ( or wherever ) of the NIC that supports calls these pxe_* () functions ???

Thanks
-prokash


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