Integrating iPXE driver binary into https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-non-osi for Pi?

[andreiw]

Hi Michael,

It's been a while since we last chatted (GSoC 2012? 2011?).

First of all big thanks for your fixes/cleanups to the Tiano DWC2 driver. And thanks for pipxe.

How do you feel about checking in a known iPXE build as part of the edk2 tree for Pi 3/4? Today we check-in the Trusted Firmware prebuilts into https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-non-osi (TF-A is OSS, but it's not Tiano code, and as a binary blob that's where it goes).

Distributing iPXE would mean supporting a wider set of USB-based NICs on Pi 3 and Pi 4 (including the onboard NIC on Pi 3). This would remove the need to maintain a separate pipxe repo here.

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[andreiw]

Also we'd love to see you hang out in the new Arm Developer-Ecosystem Discord server (invite - https://discordapp.com/invite/fqRhc8y). The Pi 3/4 UEFI devs hang out in #rpi4-uefi-dev. See https://rpi4-uefi.dev/ - it's the same upstream Pi 3 UEFI code, but we're mostly focusing on Pi 4 support now (although unifying code where possible means there's quite a bit of Pi 3 hackery happening, too)

[mcb30]

@andreiw Thanks for the invitation. I've been meaning to reply to this for months, but am only now getting around to dealing with the insane e-mail backlog I allowed to build up.

I'm happy for you to push known-working iPXE binaries into the edk-non-osi tree if that makes life easier for anyone!

I've joined the Discord server: hopefully you can find me there as @mcb30