Many UEFI NBPs expect to find an EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL installed
in addition to the EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL. Most NBPs use the
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the cached DHCP packets.
This implementation has been tested with grub.efi, shim.efi,
syslinux.efi, and wdsmgfw.efi. Some methods (such as Discover() and
Arp()) are not used by any known NBP and so have not (yet) been
implemented.
Usage notes for the tested bootstraps are:
- grub.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the
cached DHCP packet, and uses no other methods.
- shim.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL to retrieve the cached
DHCP packet and to retrieve the next NBP via the Mtftp() method.
If shim.efi was downloaded via HTTP (or other non-TFTP protocol)
then shim.efi will blindly call Mtftp() with an HTTP URI as the
filename: this allows the next NBP (e.g. grubx64.efi) to also be
transparently retrieved by HTTP.
shim.efi can also use the EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL to
retrieve files previously loaded by "imgfetch" or similar commands
in iPXE. The current implementation of shim.efi will use the
EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL only if it does not find an
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL; this patch therefore prevents this
usage of our EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL. This logic could be
trivially reversed in shim.efi if needed.
- syslinux.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the
cached DHCP packet. Versions 6.03 and earlier have a bug which
may cause syslinux.efi to attach to the wrong NIC if there are
multiple NICs in the system (or if the UEFI firmware supports
IPv6).
- wdsmgfw.efi (ab)uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL to retrieve the
cached DHCP packets, and to send and retrieve UDP packets via the
UdpWrite() and UdpRead() methods. (This was presumably done in
order to minimise the amount of benefit obtainable by switching to
UEFI, by replicating all of the design mistakes present in the
original PXE specification.)
The EFI_DOWNGRADE_UX configuration option remains available for now,
until this implementation has received more widespread testing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Our SNP ReceiveFilters() method is a no-op, since we always (if
possible) use promiscuous mode for all network cards. The method
currently returns EFI_NOT_READY if the SNP interfaces are claimed for
use by iPXE, as with all other SNP methods.
The WDS bootstrap wdsmgfw.efi attempts to use both the PXE Base Code
protocol and the Simple Network Protocol simultaneously. This is
fundamentally broken, since use of the PXE Base Code protocol requires
us to disable the use of SNP (by claiming the interfaces for use by
iPXE), otherwise MnpDxe swallows all of the received packets before
our PXE Base Code's UdpRead() method is able to return them.
The root cause of this problem is that, as with BIOS PXE, the network
booting portions of the UEFI specification are less of a specification
and more of an application note sketchily describing how the original
hacked-together Intel implementation works. No sane design would ever
have included the UdpWrite() and UdpRead() methods.
Work around these fundamental conceptual flaws by unconditionally
returning success from efi_snp_receive_filters().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add definitions of protocols observed to be used by wdsmgfw.efi, and
add a handle name type for ConIn, ConOut, and StdErr.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add debug wrappers for more boot services functions, and print
symbolic values rather than raw numbers where possible.
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>
Allow the return status from an embedded image to propagate out to the
eventual return status from main(). When running under Linux, this
allows the pass/fail result of unit tests to be observable without
having to visually inspect the console output.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
UEFI platforms may provide a watchdog timer, which will reboot the
machine if an operating system takes more than five minutes to load.
This can cause long-lived iPXE downloads (or interactive shell
sessions) to unexpectedly reboot.
Fix by resetting the watchdog timer every ten seconds while the iPXE
main processing loop continues to run.
Reported-by: Bradley B Williams <bradleybwilliams@swbell.net>
Reported-by: John Clark <john.r.clark.3@gmail.com>
Reported-by: wdriever@gmail.com
Reported-by: Charlie Beima <cbeima@indiana.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE does not currently provide EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL: this
causes failures when chainloading bootloaders such as shim.efi which
assume that this protocol will be present.
Provide the ability to work around these problems via the build
configuration option EFI_DOWNGRADE_UX. If this option is enabled,
then we will not install our usual EFI_LOAD_FILE_PROTOCOL
implementation, thereby allowing the platform firmware to install its
own EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL implementation on top of our
EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL handle.
A somewhat major side-effect of this workaround is that almost all
iPXE features will be disabled.
This configuration option will be removed in future when support for
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL is added.
Requested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Requested-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Fix the TxBuf value filled in by GetStatus() to report the transmit
buffer address as required by the (now clarified) specification.
Simplify "interrupt" handling in GetStatus() to report only that one
or more packets have been transmitted or received; there is no need to
report one GetStatus() "interrupt" per packet.
Simplify receive handling to dequeue received packets immediately from
the network device into an internal list (thereby avoiding the hacks
previously used to determine when to report new packet arrivals).
Originally-fixed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The current API for Base16 (and Base64) encoding requires the caller
to always provide sufficient buffer space. This prevents the use of
the generic encoding/decoding functionality in some situations, such
as in formatting the hex setting types.
Implement a generic hex_encode() (based on the existing
format_hex_setting()), implement base16_encode() and base16_decode()
in terms of the more generic hex_encode() and hex_decode(), and update
all callers to provide the additional buffer length parameter.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Relicence files with kind permission from the following contributors:
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Greg Jednaszewski <jednaszewski@gmail.com>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Marin Hannache <git@mareo.fr>
Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com>
Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some UEFI systems (observed with a Hyper-V virtual machine) do not
provide EFI_PCI_ROOT_BRIDGE_IO_PROTOCOL. Make this an optional
protocol (and fail any attempts to access PCI configuration space via
the root bridge if the protocol is missing).
Reported-by: Colin Blacker <Colin.Blacker@computerplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Propagate our modified EFI system table to any images loaded by the
image that we wrap, thereby allowing us to observe boot services calls
made by all subsequent EFI images.
Also show details of intercepted ExitBootServices() calls. When
wrapping is used, exiting boot services will almost certainly fail,
but this at least allows us to see when it happens.
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>
The ComponentName and ComponentName2 protocols differ only in the
standard which is used for language name codes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Try very hard to avoid ever doing something invalid while attempting
to generate a debug message.
Debugged-by: Curtis Larsen <larsen@dixie.edu>
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>
efi_file_install() and efi_download_install() are both used to install
onto existing handles. There is therefore no need to allow for each
of their calls to InstallMultipleProtocolInterfaces() to create a new
handle.
By passing the handle directly (rather than a pointer to the handle),
we avoid potential confusion (and erroneous debug message colours).
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>
Provide a function efi_handle_name() (as a generalisation of
efi_handle_devpath_text()) which tries various methods to produce a
human-readable name for an EFI handle.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
