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>
We currently use INT 13,00 as an opportunity to reopen the underlying
block device, which works well for callers such as DOS that will use
INT 13,00 in response to any disk errors. However, some callers (such
as Windows Server 2008) do not attempt to reset the disk, and so any
failures become effectively permanent.
Fix this by automatically reopening the underlying block device
whenever we might want to access it.
This makes direct installation of Windows to an iSCSI target much more
reliable.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The "size" bit (aka the D/B) bit should (as far as I can tell) be
irrelevant for accesses to a non-code, non-stack, expand-upwards
segment. However, VirtualBox fails on some accesses via this segment
if this bit is not set.
This change allows iPXE to boot under VirtualBox without having to
disable VT-x/AMD-V support.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Building the Linux-specific code (tap.o et al) requires external
headers that have proven to be extremely variable across systems,
causing frequent build failures.
Until this situation is rectified, remove the Linux-specific code from
the default (non-Linux build).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some binutils versions will drag in an object to satisfy the entry
symbol; some won't. Try to cope with this exciting variety of
behaviour by ensuring that all entry symbols are unique.
Remove the explicit inclusion of the prefix object on the linker
command line, since the entry symbol now provides all the information
needed to identify the prefix.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit 623469d ("[build] Eliminate unused sections at link-time")
introduced a regression in several build formats, in which the prefix
would end up being garbage-collected out of existence. Fix by
ensuring that an entry symbol exists in each possible prefix, and is
required by the linker script.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Use -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and --gc-sections to
automatically prune out any unreferenced sections.
This saves around 744 bytes (uncompressed) from the rtl8139.rom build.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
EFI performs its own PCI bus enumeration. Respect this, and start
controlling devices only when instructed to do so by EFI.
As a side benefit, we should now correctly create multiple SNP
instances for multi-port devices.
This should also fix the problem of failing to enumerate devices
because the PCI bridges have not yet been enabled at the time the iPXE
driver is loaded.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Merge the "bus" and "devfn" fields into a single "busdevfn" field, to
match the format used by the majority of external code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some BIOSes can report multiple memory regions which may be adjacent
and the same type. Since only the first region is used in the
mboot.c32 layer it's possible to run out of memory when loading all of
the boot modules. One may get around this problem by having iPXE
merge these memory regions internally.
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>
libflat no longer has anything to do with flat real mode; it handles
only the A20 gate. Update library name to match.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Flat real mode will have been set up as a side-effect of the
protected-mode call invoked during install_block() for .text16.early;
there is no need to do so explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Flat real mode works perfectly on real hardware, but seems to cause
problems for some hypervisors. Revert to using 16-bit protected mode
(and returning to real mode with 4GB limits, so as not to break PMM
BIOSes).
Allow the code specific to the .mrom format to continue to assume that
flat real mode works, since this format is specific to real hardware.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The PXE debugging messages have remained pretty much unaltered since
Etherboot 5.4, and are now difficult to read in comparison to most of
the rest of iPXE.
Bring the pxe_udp debug messages up to normal iPXE standards.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Earlier versions of the PXE specification do not have the SubVendor_ID
and SubDevice_ID fields, and some NBPs may not provide space for them.
Avoid overwriting the contents of these fields, just in case.
This is similar to the problem with the BufferLimit field in
PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Changes were made to files where the licence text within the files
themselves confirms that the files are GPL version 2 or later.
Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Use the real-mode address ffff:0010 to access the linear address
0x100000, and so test whether or not the A20 gate is enabled without
requiring a switch into flat real mode (or some other addressing
mode).
This speeds up CPU mode transitions, and also avoids breaking the NBP
from IBM's Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Operating System
Deployment. This NBP makes some calls to iPXE in VM86 mode rather
than true real mode and does not correctly emulate our transition into
flat real mode.
Interestingly, Tivoli's VMM *does* allow us to switch into protected
mode (though it patches our GDT so that we execute in ring 1 rather
than ring 0). However, paging is still disabled and we have a 4GB
segment limit. Being in ring 1 does not, therefore, restrict us in
any meaningful way; this has been verified by deliberately writing
garbage over Tivoli's own GDT (at address 0x02201010) during a
nominally VM86-mode PXE API call. It's unclear precisely what
protection this VMM is supposed to be offering.
Suggested-by: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@rwcr.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some network cards do not generate interrupts when operated via the
UNDI API. Allow for this by waiting for the ISR to be triggered only
if the PXE stack advertises that it supports interrupts. When the PXE
stack does not advertise interrupt support, we skip the call to
PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_START and just poll the device using
PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_PROCESS. This matches the observed behaviour of at
least one other PXE NBP (emBoot's winBoot/i), so there is a reasonable
chance of this working.
Originally-implemented-by: Muralidhar Appalla <Muralidhar.Appalla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The disk signature is used by some OSes (notably Windows) to identify
the boot disk, so it's useful debugging information to have.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Support the extensions mandated by EDD 4.0, including:
o the ability to specify a flat physical address in a disk address
packet,
o the ability to specify a sector count greater than 127 in a disk
address packet,
o support for all functions within the Fixed Disk Access and EDD
Support subsets,
o the ability to describe a device using EDD Device Path Information.
This implementation is based on draft revision 3 of the EDD 4.0
specification, with reference to the EDD 3.0 specification. It is
possible that this implementation may need to change in order to
conform to the final published EDD 4.0 specification.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The block device interface used in gPXE predates the invention of even
the old gPXE data-transfer interface, let alone the current iPXE
generic asynchronous interface mechanism. Bring this old code up to
date, with the following benefits:
o Block device commands can be cancelled by the requestor. The INT 13
layer uses this to provide a global timeout on all INT 13 calls,
with the result that an unexpected passive failure mode (such as
an iSCSI target ACKing the request but never sending a response)
will lead to a timeout that gets reported back to the INT 13 user,
rather than simply freezing the system.
o INT 13,00 (reset drive) is now able to reset the underlying block
device. INT 13 users, such as DOS, that use INT 13,00 as a method
for error recovery now have a chance of recovering.
o All block device commands are tagged, with a numerical tag that
will show up in debugging output and in packet captures; this will
allow easier interpretation of bug reports that include both
sources of information.
o The extremely ugly hacks used to generate the boot firmware tables
have been eradicated and replaced with a generic acpi_describe()
method (exploiting the ability of iPXE interfaces to pass through
methods to an underlying interface). The ACPI tables are now
built in a shared data block within .bss16, rather than each
requiring dedicated space in .data16.
o The architecture-independent concept of a SAN device has been
exposed to the iPXE core through the sanboot API, which provides
calls to hook, unhook, boot, and describe SAN devices. This
allows for much more flexible usage patterns (such as hooking an
empty SAN device and then running an OS installer via TFTP).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE has never supported SEEK_END; the usage of "whence" offers only
the options of SEEK_SET and SEEK_CUR and so is effectively a boolean
flag. Further flags will be required to support additional metadata
required by the Fibre Channel network model, so repurpose the "whence"
field as a generic "flags" field.
xfer_seek() has always been used with SEEK_SET, so remove the "whence"
field altogether from its argument list.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Declarations without the accompanying __table_entry cause misalignment
of the table entries when using gcc 4.5. Fix by adding the
appropriate __table_entry macro or (where possible) by removing
unnecessary forward declarations.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Support qemu-like arguments for network setup:
--net driver_name[,setting=value]*
and global settings:
--settings setting=value[,setting=value]*
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add makefiles, ld scripts and default config for linux platform for
both i386 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown