From: "Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>, devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: "Rabeda, Maciej" <maciej.rabeda@linux.intel.com>,
michael.kubacki@outlook.com, Siyuan Fu <siyuan.fu@intel.com>,
Jiaxin Wu <jiaxin.wu@intel.com>,
"Tomas Pilar (tpilar)" <tpilar@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] NetworkPkg/SnpDxe: Register SnpNotifyExitBootServices at TPL_CALLBACK
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:25:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e98d616-febc-6f9e-9436-3da184df50b7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0CFA9104-ADB5-40F9-B564-A15D76FB58FC@apple.com>
On 04/16/20 18:12, Andrew Fish wrote:
> Laszlo,
>
> This is "way back" but UNDI was defined in the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Specification. I think version 2.1 was the last one in and it was released in 1999. The how to do it in EFI ended up in the EFI spec.
>
> PXE was a PC BIOS specification for network booting, UNDI (Universal Network Device Interface) was a standardized abstraction for NIC hardware that goes back to PC BIOS
Thanks for the explanation!
> The cross link for specs referenced in the UEFI Spec is here: https://uefi.org/uefi. The idea is to keep that up do date.
Awesome! I've always missed a page like this!
Laszlo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-20 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-09 18:16 [PATCH v1 1/1] NetworkPkg/SnpDxe: Register SnpNotifyExitBootServices at TPL_CALLBACK Michael Kubacki
2020-04-14 9:59 ` Maciej Rabeda
2020-04-14 17:08 ` Michael Kubacki
2020-04-15 9:45 ` [edk2-devel] " Maciej Rabeda
2020-04-15 16:25 ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-04-15 16:40 ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-04-16 15:25 ` Maciej Rabeda
2020-04-16 16:12 ` Andrew Fish
2020-04-20 9:25 ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
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