Allow the UEFI platform firmware to provide drivers for unrecognised
devices, by exposing our own implementation of EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow iPXE to coexist with other USB device drivers, by attaching to
the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL instances provided by the UEFI platform
firmware.
The EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL is an unsurprisingly badly designed
abstraction of a USB device. The poor design choices intrinsic in the
UEFI specification prevent efficient operation as a network device,
with the result that devices operated using the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL
operate approximately two orders of magnitude slower than devices
operated using our native EHCI or xHCI host controller drivers.
Since the performance is so abysmally slow, and since the underlying
problems are due to fundamental architectural mistakes in the UEFI
specification, support for the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL host controller
driver is left as disabled by default. Users are advised to use the
native iPXE host controller drivers instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When USB network card drivers are used, the BIOS' legacy USB
capability is necessarily disabled since there is no way to share the
host controller between the BIOS and iPXE. This currently results in
USB keyboards becoming non-functional in USB-enabled builds of iPXE.
Fix by adding basic support for USB keyboards, enabled by default in
iPXE builds which include USB support.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown