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[efi] Attempt to connect our driver directly if ConnectController fails
authorMichael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 21:52:11 +0000 (22:52 +0100)
committerMichael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Wed, 10 Jun 2020 22:01:23 +0000 (23:01 +0100)
commit9ee70fb95bc266885ff88be228b044a2bb226eeb
treee5d911d39a16cadf48efd9af28a04afdf6644b77
parent6a6def775db00a88fa800ea4d08e6519539dacde
[efi] Attempt to connect our driver directly if ConnectController fails

Some platforms (observed with an AMI BIOS on an Apollo Lake system)
will spuriously fail the call to ConnectController() when the UEFI
network stack is disabled.  This appears to be a BIOS bug that also
affects attempts to connect any non-iPXE driver to the NIC controller
handle via the UEFI shell "connect" utility.

Work around this BIOS bug by falling back to calling our
efi_driver_start() directly if the call to ConnectController() fails.
This bypasses any BIOS policy in terms of deciding which driver to
connect but still cooperates with the UEFI driver model in terms of
handle ownership, since the use of EFI_OPEN_PROTOCOL_BY_DRIVER ensures
that the BIOS is aware of our ownership claim.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
src/interface/efi/efi_driver.c