When prompting the user to enter a setting value via the "read"
command, prefill the input buffer with the setting's current value.
Requested-by: Ján Ondrej (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.ks>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When fetching a named setting using a name that does not explicitly
specify a type, default to using the type stored when the setting was
created, rather than always defaulting to "string". This allows the
behaviour of user-defined settings to match the behaviour of
predefined settings (which have a sensible default type).
For example:
set server:ipv4 192.168.0.1
echo ${server}
will now print "192.168.0.1", rather than trying to print out the raw
IPv4 address bytes as a string.
The downside of this change is that existing tricks for printing
special characters within scripts may require (backwards-compatible)
modification. For example, the "clear screen" sequence:
set esc:hex 1b
set cls ${esc}[2J
echo ${cls}
will now have to become
set esc:hex 1b
set cls ${esc:string}[2J # Must now explicitly specify ":string"
echo ${cls}
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The "read" command allows a script to prompt a user to enter a
setting. For example:
echo -n Static IP address:
read net0/ip
Total cost: 17 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Enable the "show" command to display the full, canonicalised name of
the fetched setting. For example:
iPXE> show mac
net0/mac:hex = 52:54:00:12:34:56
iPXE> dhcp && show ip
DHCP (net0 52:54:00:12:34:56)... ok
net0.dhcp/ip:ipv4 = 10.0.0.168
iPXE> show net0/6
net0.dhcp/dns:ipv4 = 10.0.0.6
Inspired-by: Glenn Brown <glenn@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The online documentation (e.g. http://ipxe.org/cmd/ifopen), though not
yet complete, is far more comprehensive than could be provided within
the iPXE binary. Save around 200 bytes (compressed) by removing the
command descriptions from the interactive help, and instead referring
users directly to the web page describing the relevant command.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow "set <variable>" to be used to set the variable to an empty
value, if permitted by the setting type. Note that some settings
backends do not differentiate between an empty value and a
non-existent value, so this may or may not be equivalent to "clear
<variable>".
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow multiple, space separated values (such as kernel arguments,
passed via DHCP) to be assigned to an identifier using the "set"
command.
Originally-implemented-by: Aaron Brooks <aaron@brooks1.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow for settings to be described by something other than a DHCP option
tag if desirable. Currently used only for the MAC address setting.
Separate out fake DHCP packet creation code from dhcp.c to fakedhcp.c.
Remove notion of settings from dhcppkt.c.
Rationalise dhcp.c to use settings API only for final registration of the
DHCP options, rather than using {store,fetch}_setting throughout.
Add the notion of the settings hierarchy, complete with
register/unregister routines.
Rename set->store and get->fetch to avoid naming conflicts with get/put
as used in reference counting.
Add the concept of an abstract configuration setting, comprising a (DHCP)
tag value and an associated byte sequence.
Add the concept of a settings namespace.
Add functions for extracting string, IPv4 address, and signed and
unsigned integer values from configuration settings (analogous to
dhcp_snprintf(), dhcp_ipv4_option(), etc.).
Update functions for parsing and formatting named/typed options to work
with new settings API.
Update NVO commands and config UI to use new settings API.
show_setting() and related functions now return an "actual length" in the
style of snprintf(). This is to allow consumers to allocate buffers large
enough to hold the formatted setting.
Introduce new {show,set,clear}_setting() that take a struct setting *
rather than a const char *.
set_setting() handles calling clear_setting() when appropriate, so that
individual setting types don't have to check for empty strings.
