Michael Brown [Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:48:47 +0000 (18:48 +0000)]
[autoboot] Connect SAN disk during a filename boot, if applicable
For performing installations direct to a SAN target, it can be very
useful to hook a SAN disk and then proceed to perform a filename boot.
For example, the user may wish to hook the (empty) SAN installation
disk and then boot into the OS installer via TFTP. This provides an
alternative mechanism to using "keep-san" and relying on the BIOS to
fall through to boot from the installation media, which is unreliable
on many BIOSes.
When a root-path is specified in addition to a boot filename, attempt
to hook the root-path as a SAN disk before booting from the specified
filename. Since the root-path may be used for non-SAN purposes
(e.g. an NFS root mount point), ignore the root-path if it contains a
URI scheme that we do not support.
Originally-implemented-by: Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown [Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:35:48 +0000 (20:35 +0000)]
[init] Remove concept of "shutdown exit flags"
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.
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.
Michael Brown [Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:04:43 +0000 (23:04 +0000)]
[prefix] Use 16-bit protected mode for access to high memory
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.
Michael Brown [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:37:27 +0000 (01:37 +0000)]
[pci] Allow pci_vpd_init() return status to be ignored
Most xxx_init() functions are void functions with no failure cases.
Allow pci_vpd_init() to be used in the same way. (Subsequent calls to
pci_vpd_read() etc. will fail if pci_vpd_init() fails.)
Michael Brown [Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:10:38 +0000 (01:10 +0000)]
[nvo] Remove the non-volatile options fragment list
Since its implementation several years ago, no driver has used a
fragment list containing more than a single fragment. Simplify the
NVO core and the drivers that use it by removing the whole concept of
the fragment list, and using a simple (address,length) pair instead.
Michael Brown [Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:58:11 +0000 (23:58 +0000)]
[dhcp] Allow use of custom reallocation functions for DHCP option blocks
Allow functions other than realloc() to be used to reallocate DHCP
option block data, and specify the reallocation function at the time
of calling dhcpopt_init().
Michael Brown [Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:22:49 +0000 (00:22 +0000)]
[dhcp] Remove redundant length fields in struct dhcp_packet
The max_len field is never used, and the len field is used only by
dhcp_tx(). Remove these two fields, and perform the necessary trivial
calculation in dhcp_tx() instead.
Michael Brown [Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:29:20 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
[dhcp] Use Ethernet-compatible chaddr, if possible
For IPoIB, we currently use the hardware address (i.e. the eight-byte
GUID) as the DHCP chaddr. This works, but some PXE servers (notably
Altiris RDP) refuse to respond if the chaddr field is anything other
than six bytes in length.
We already have the notion of an Ethernet-compatible link-layer
address, which is used in the iBFT (the design of which similarly
fails to account for non-Ethernet link layers). Use this as the first
preferred alternative to the actual link-layer address when
constructing the DHCP chaddr field.
Michael Brown [Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:25:08 +0000 (15:25 +0000)]
[pxe] Improve pxe_udp debug messages
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.
Michael Brown [Sat, 4 Dec 2010 02:55:11 +0000 (02:55 +0000)]
[fnrec] Enhance function recording
Enhance the information collected by the function recorder to include
the call site and entry/exit counts. This allows fnrec.pl to produce
a call tree such as:
Note that inlined functions are reported, confusingly, as extra calls
to the *containing* function. Minimise this confusion by adding the
attribute "no_instrument_function" to all functions declared as
inline. (Static functions that have been inlined autonomously by gcc
will still be problematic, but these are far fewer in number.)
Michael Brown [Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:32:00 +0000 (21:32 +0000)]
[pxe] Avoid touching fields that may not exist in PXENV_UNDI_GET_NIC_TYPE
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.
Michael Brown [Fri, 3 Dec 2010 04:44:10 +0000 (04:44 +0000)]
[libflat] Test A20 gate without switching to flat real mode
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>
Michael Brown [Wed, 1 Dec 2010 18:46:50 +0000 (18:46 +0000)]
[vlan] Expose vlan_find() to network card drivers
Some network cards automatically strip the VLAN header, providing the
VLAN tag via a side channel such as a completion queue entry. These
cards need to be able to report receive completions directly against
the relevant VLAN device.
Michael Brown [Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:15:52 +0000 (17:15 +0000)]
[vlan] Use "-" instead of "." as separator in VLAN device names
VLAN device names have the form "netX.Y", e.g. "net0.5" for VLAN 5 on
net0. This use of "." conflicts with the use of "." as the
hierarchical separator in settings block names, with the result that
VLAN device settings cannot be accessed by name.
It would be trivial to treat the VLAN device settings as being a child
of the trunk device settings, but this would cause the VLAN device
settings to be applied to the trunk device: for example, setting
"net0.5/ip" would then apply the IP address to both net0.5 and net0.
Fix by changing the VLAN device name to use "-" instead of ".": the
VLAN device "net0.5" is now "net0-5".
Michael Brown [Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:34:23 +0000 (16:34 +0000)]
[settings] Apply settings block name in register_settings()
Pass the settings block name as a parameter to register_settings(),
rather than defining it with settings_init() (and then possibly
changing it by directly manipulating settings->name).
Michael Brown [Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:19:59 +0000 (14:19 +0000)]
[cmdline] Match user expectations for &&, ||, goto, and exit
The && and || operators should be left-associative, since that is how
they are treated in most other languages (including C and Unix
shell). For example, in the command:
dhcp net0 && goto dhcp_ok || echo No DHCP on net0
if the "dhcp net0" fails then the "echo" should be executed.
After an "exit" or a successful "goto", further commands on the same
line should never be executed. For example:
goto somewhere && echo This should never be printed
exit 0 && echo This should never be printed
exit 1 && echo This should never be printed
An "exit" should cause the current shell or script to terminate and
return the specified exit status to its caller. For example:
Michael Brown [Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:26:27 +0000 (17:26 +0000)]
[build] Use __builtin_offsetof() when available
Some newer versions of gcc (observed with a patched gcc 4.5.1) seem to
treat our offsetof() implementation as not being a compile-time
constant. Fix by using __builtin_offsetof() when available. (As with
the original offsetof() macro, this code is copied from the Linux
kernel's stddef.h.)
Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown [Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:48:01 +0000 (15:48 +0000)]
[fcoe] Use only the first instance of a FIP descriptor
Almost all FIP packets contain at most one instance of each
descriptor. A VLAN notification may contain multiple VLAN
descriptors. The FCoE specification does not provide any guidance
regarding prioritisation of VLANs, so we may choose to arbitrarily
choose the first listed VLAN.
Michael Brown [Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:23:46 +0000 (15:23 +0000)]
[vlan] Treat VLAN 0 as valid
VLAN headers are allowed to contain a VLAN tag of zero, indicating
that the header specifies only a priority and that the packet does not
belong to any VLAN. The easiest way to handle this is to treat VLAN 0
as being a normal VLAN.
Michael Brown [Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:03:51 +0000 (16:03 +0000)]
[fcoe] Tidy up debug message
The increase in length in Fibre Channel device names causes the
"selected FCF" message to wrap beyond 80 characters. Fix by using
abbreviations where possible.
Michael Brown [Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:21:08 +0000 (14:21 +0000)]
[fcoe] Create Fibre Channel port only when we have selected an FCF
Create the Fibre Channel port only when the FCoE port has selected a
Fibre Channel Forwarder to use. This avoids the confusion of having
an FC port created for the network device on which only VLAN discovery
is performed.
Expansion of the (admittedly perverse) "aaa}bbb${ccc" will currently
fail because expand_command() does not check that the closing "}"
occurs later than the opening "${".
Fix by ensuring that the most recent opening "${" is used to match
against the first *subsequent* closing "}".
Total cost of this change: -12 bytes, bringing the overall cost of
this feature to -4 bytes.
Michael Brown [Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:31:00 +0000 (21:31 +0000)]
[cmdline] Fix multi-layer variable expansion
Expansion of ${${foo}} will currently fail, because the first
opening "${" will be incorrectly matched against the first closing
"}", leading to an attempt to expand the variable "${foo".
Fix by ensuring that the most recent opening "${" is used to match
against the first closing "}".
Michael Brown [Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:11:03 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
[settings] Allow "set" command to take an empty value
Allow "set <variable>" to be used to set the variable to an empty
value, if permitted by the setting type. Note that some settings
backends do not differentiate between an empty value and a
non-existent value, so this may or may not be equivalent to "clear
<variable>".
Michael Brown [Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:19:24 +0000 (04:19 +0000)]
[script] Implement "goto" in iPXE scripts
Allow script labels to be defined using the syntax
:<labelname>
(nothing else allowed on the line, including whitespace). Labels are
ignored during script execution, but can be used as the target of the
"goto" command. For example:
#!ipxe
goto machine_${net0/ip} || goto machine_default
# Linux kernel boot
:machine_10.0.0.101
:machine_10.0.0.102
set filename http://my.boot.server/vmlinuz
goto done
# Default configuration
:machine_default
set filename pxelinux.0
goto done
Originally-implemented-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca> Originally-implemented-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown [Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:58:30 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
[parseopt] Add generic option-parsing library
Command implementations tend to include a substantial amount of common
boilerplate code revolving around the parsing of command-line options
and arguments. This increases the size cost of each command.
Introduce an option-parsing library that abstracts out the common
operations involved in command implementations. This enables the size
of each individual command to be reduced, and also enhances
consistency between commands.
Total size of the library is 704 bytes, to be amortised across all
command implementations.
Michael Brown [Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:56:25 +0000 (04:56 +0000)]
[netdevice] Allow per-device receive queue processing to be frozen
Several use cases (e.g. the UNDI API and the EFI SNP API) require
access to the raw network device receive queue, and so currently use
manual calls to netdev_poll() on a specific network device in order to
prevent received packets from being processed by the network stack.
As an alternative, provide a flag that allows receive queue processing
to be frozen on a per-device basis. When receive queue processing is
frozen, packets will be enqueued as normal, but will not be
automatically dequeued and passed up the network stack.
Michael Brown [Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:48:00 +0000 (18:48 +0000)]
[undi] Support underlying UNDI devices that don't support interrupts
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>
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