EFI provides no clean way for device drivers to shut down in
preparation for handover to a booted operating system. The platform
firmware simply doesn't bother to call the drivers' Stop() methods.
Instead, drivers must register an EVT_SIGNAL_EXIT_BOOT_SERVICES event
to be signalled when ExitBootServices() is called, and clean up
without any reference to the EFI driver model.
Unfortunately, all timers silently stop working when ExitBootServices()
is called. Even more unfortunately, and for no discernible reason,
this happens before any EVT_SIGNAL_EXIT_BOOT_SERVICES events are
signalled. The net effect of this entertaining design choice is that
any timeout loops on the shutdown path (e.g. for gracefully closing
outstanding TCP connections) may wait indefinitely.
There is no way to report failure from currticks(), since the API
lazily assumes that the host system continues to travel through time
in the usual direction. Work around EFI's violation of this
assumption by falling back to a simple free-running monotonic counter.
Debugged-by: Maor Dickman <maord@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We currently use the EFI_CPU_ARCH_PROTOCOL's GetTimerValue() method to
generate the currticks() timer, calibrated against a 1ms delay from
the boot services Stall() method.
This does not work on ARM platforms, where GetTimerValue() is an empty
stub which just returns EFI_UNSUPPORTED.
Fix by instead creating a periodic timer event, and using this event
to increment a current tick counter.
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>
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resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain.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>
EFI_STATUS is defined as an INTN, which maps to UINT32 (i.e. unsigned
int) on i386 and UINT64 (i.e. unsigned long) on x86_64. This would
require a cast each time the error status is printed.
Add efi_strerror() to avoid this ickiness and simultaneously enable
prettier reporting of EFI status codes.
This brings us in to line with Linux definitions, and also simplifies
adding x86_64 support since both platforms have 2-byte shorts, 4-byte
ints and 8-byte long longs.
We have EFI APIs for CPU I/O, PCI I/O, timers, console I/O, user
access and user memory allocation.
EFI executables are created using the vanilla GNU toolchain, with the
EXE header handcrafted in assembly and relocations generated by a
custom efilink utility.
Michael Brown