We currently request cable detection in PXE_OPCODE_INITIALIZE to work
around buggy Emulex drivers (see commit c0b61ba ("[efi] Work around
bugs in Emulex NII driver")).
This causes problems with some other NII drivers (e.g. Mellanox),
which may time out if the underlying link is intrinsically slow to
come up.
Attempt to work around both problems simultaneously by requesting
cable detection only if the underlying NII driver does not support
link status reporting via PXE_OPCODE_GET_STATUS. (This is based on a
potentially incorrect assumption that the buggy Emulex drivers do not
claim to report link status via PXE_OPCODE_GET_STATUS.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The UEFI specification requires the EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL
GetStatus() method to set TxBuf to NULL if there are no transmit
buffers to recycle.
Some implementations (observed with Lan9118Dxe in EDK2) fill in TxBuf
only when there is a transmit buffer to recycle, which leads to large
numbers of "spurious TX completion" errors.
Work around this problem by initialising TxBuf to NULL before calling
the GetStatus() method.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The raw EFI_HANDLE value is almost never useful to know, and simply
adds noise to the already verbose debug messages. Improve the
legibility of debug messages by using only the name generated by
efi_handle_name().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
At least one NII implementation (in a Microsoft Surface tablet) seems
to fail to report the absence (sic) of TX completions properly. Work
around this by checking for TX completions only when we expect to see
one.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some NII implementations will fail the GET_STATUS operation if we
request the media status. Fix by doing so only if GET_INIT_INFO
reported that media status is supported.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
End users almost certainly don't care whether the underlying interface
is SNP or NII/UNDI. Try to minimise surprise and unnecessary
documentation by including the NII driver whenever the SNP driver is
requested.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE itself exposes a dummy NII protocol with no UNDI. Avoid
potentially dereferencing a NULL pointer by checking for a non-zero
UNDI address.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some UEFI network drivers provide a software UNDI interface which is
exposed via the Network Interface Identifier Protocol (NII), rather
than providing a Simple Network Protocol (SNP).
The UEFI platform firmware will usually include the SnpDxe driver,
which attaches to NII and provides an SNP interface. The SNP
interface is usually provided on the same handle as the underlying NII
device. This causes problems for our EFI driver model: when
efi_driver_connect() detaches existing drivers from the handle it will
cause the SNP interface to be uninstalled, and so our SNP driver will
not be able to attach to the handle. The platform firmware will
eventually reattach the SnpDxe driver and may attach us to the SNP
handle, but we have no way to prevent other drivers from attaching
first.
Fix by providing a driver which can attach directly to the NII
protocol, using the software UNDI interface to drive the network
device.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The snpnet driver uses netdev_tx_defer() and so must ensure that space
in the (single-entry) transmit descriptor ring is freed up before
calling netdev_tx_complete().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We currently require information about the underlying PCI device to
populate the snpnet device's name and description. If the underlying
device is not a PCI device, this will fail and prevent the device from
being registered.
Fix by falling back to populating the device description with
information based on the EFI handle, if no PCI device information is
available.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some systems will install a child of the SNP device and use this as
our loaded image's device handle, duplicating the installation of the
underlying SNP protocol onto the child device handle. On such
systems, we want to end up driving the parent device (and
disconnecting any other drivers, such as MNP, which may be attached to
the parent device).
Fix by recording the SNP protocol instance at initialisation time, and
using this to match against device handles (rather than simply
comparing the handles themselves).
Reported-by: Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The behavior observed in the Apple EFI (1.10) RecieveFilters() call
is:
- failure if any of the PROMISCUOUS or MULTICAST filters are
included
- success if only UNICAST is included, however the result is
UNICAST|BROADCAST
- success if only UNICAST and BROADCAST are included
- if UNICAST, or UNICAST|BROADCAST are used, but the previous call
tried (and failed) to set UNICAST|BROADCAST|MULTICAST, then the
result is UNICAST|BROADCAST|MULTICAST
Work around this apparently broken SNP implementation by trying
RecieveFilterMask, then falling back to UNICAST|BROADCAST|MULTICAST,
then UNICAST|BROADCAST, and finally UNICAST.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Tested-by: Curtis Larsen <larsen@dixie.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some EFI 1.10 systems (observed on an Apple iMac) do not allow us to
open the device path protocol with an attribute of
EFI_OPEN_PROTOCOL_BY_DRIVER and so we cannot maintain a safe,
long-lived pointer to the device path. Work around this by instead
opening the device path protocol with an attribute of
EFI_OPEN_PROTOCOL_GET_PROTOCOL whenever we need to use it.
Debugged-by: Curtis Larsen <larsen@dixie.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
According to the UEFI specification, the MCastFilter parameter (which
we currently pass as NULL, along with a zero MCastFilterCnt) is
optional only if ResetMCastFilter is true.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Dump the existing openers of a protocol whenever we are unable to open
a protocol using attributes of BY_DEVICE, EXCLUSIVE, or
BY_CHILD_CONTROLLER.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Using efi_devpath_text() is marginally more efficient if we already
have the device path protocol available, but the mild increase in
efficiency is not worth compromising the clarity of the pattern:
DBGC ( device, "THING %p %s ...", device, efi_handle_name ( device ) );
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Rewrite the SNP NIC driver to use non-blocking and deferrable
transmissions, to provide link status detection, to provide
information about the underlying (PCI) hardware device, and to avoid
unnecessary I/O buffer allocations during receive polling.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Exploit the redefinition of iPXE error codes to include a "platform
error code" to allow for meaningful conversion of EFI_STATUS values to
iPXE errors and vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Practically speaking, it seems the convention is to only have one
packet pending and not rely upon any mechanism to associate returned
txbuf with txqueue.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Remove the concept of shutdown exit flags, and replace it with a
counter used to keep track of exposed interfaces that require devices
to remain active.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add a new network driver that consumes the EFI Simple Network
Protocol. Also add a bus driver that can find the Simple Network
Protocol that iPXE was loaded from; the resulting behavior is similar
to the "undionly" driver for BIOS systems.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
