Chelsio T520-SO-CR / Need to understand the bios menu option of this card
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Hi to all,
I recently purchase a Chelsio T520-SO-CR, i need some explanation about the bios menu to set it properly.
Does someone can help me to understand the different information below please ?Adapter BIOS : Enabled
Initialisation Platform : Both
Boot Mode : Compatibility
EDD : 2.1
EBDA Relocation : Permitted
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I have never seen any cause to change the default value there. What are you trying to do?
Steve
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Just to disable some useless feature and potential issue with pfsense…
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I think the only feature you might disable on that card is PXE. Is it causing an issue?
Steve
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I disabled it.
Do you know what is EDD and EBDA Relocation ?
Best Regards.
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Googling…. ;)
Appears to be Extended BIOS Data Area. So allowing that to be relocated presumably gives more flexibility but perhaps breaks anything hard-coded with the original localtion.
Enhanced Disk Device seems to be for using the card with FCoE to provide a boot device to the main BIOS.
https://service.chelsio.com/beta/drivers/Chelsio-Uboot-2.0.0.8/Chelsio-UnifiedBoot-UserGuide.pdf
No real reason to change either of those I would think.
Steve
