Michael Brown [Tue, 20 May 2008 17:41:36 +0000 (18:41 +0100)]
[SMBIOS] Interpret UUIDs as being in network-endian order
Various specification documents disagree about the byte ordering of
UUIDs. However, SMBIOS seems to use the standard in which everything is
in network-endian order.
This doesn't affect anything sent on the wire; only what gets printed on
the screen when the "uuid" variable is displayed.
The current ipv4 incorrectly checks the IP address for multicast address.
This causes valid IPv4 unicast address to be trated as multicast address
For e.g if the PXE/tftp server IP address is 192.168.4.XXX where XXX is
224 or greater, it gets treated as multicast address and a ethernet
multicast address is sent out on the wire causing timeouts
Michael Brown [Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:48:29 +0000 (13:48 +0100)]
[iSCSI] Offer CHAP authentication only if we have a username and password
Some EMC targets will fail if we advertise that we can authenticate with
CHAP, but the target is configured to allow unauthenticated access to that
target. We advertise AuthMethod=CHAP,None; the target should (I think)
select AuthMethod=None for unprotected targets. IETD does this, but an
EMC Celerra NS83 doesn't.
Fix by offering only AuthMethod=None if the user hasn't supplied a
username and password; this means that we won't be offering CHAP
authentication unless the user is expecting to use it (in which case the
target is presumably configured appropriately).
Many thanks to Alessandro Iurlano <alessandro.iurlano@gmail.com> for
reporting and helping to diagnose this problem.
ROMs will refuse to build unless pci_vendor_id and pci_device_id are
defined. We probably ought to fix up the Makefile (and the ROM prefix) so
that they're required only for PCI ROMs, but this will do for now.
Michael Brown [Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:40:50 +0000 (17:40 +0100)]
[NETDEV] Add notion of link state
Add ability for network devices to flag link up/down state to the
networking core.
Autobooting code will now wait for link-up before attempting DHCP.
IPoIB reflects the Infiniband link state as the network device link state
(which is not strictly correct; we also need a succesful IPoIB IPv4
broadcast group join), but is probably more informative.
Michael Brown [Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:28:00 +0000 (16:28 +0100)]
[HCI] Display "Not an executable image" when appropriate
PXE is a catch-all image format with no signature checks. If an
unsupported image file is loaded, it will be treated as a PXE image. In
most cases, the image will be too large to be loaded as a PXE image (which
has to fit in base memory), so the error returned to the user will be that
the segment could not fit within the memory region.
Add an explicit check to pxe_image.c to reject images larger than base
memory with ENOEXEC.
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:01:08 +0000 (05:01 -0700)]
[http] gPXE is a HTTP/1.0 client, not a HTTP/1.1 client
gPXE is not compliant with the HTTP/1.1 specification (RFC 2616),
since it lacks support for "Transfer-Encoding: chunked". gPXE is,
however, compliant with the HTTP/1.0 specification (RFC 1945), which
does not require "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" to be supported.
The only HTTP/1.1 feature that gPXE uses is the "Host:" header, but
servers universally accept that one from HTTP/1.0 clients as an
optional extension (it is obligatory for HTTP/1.1). gPXE does not,
for example, appear to support connection caching. Advertising as a
HTTP/1.0 client will typically make the server close the connection
immediately upon sending the last data, which is actually beneficial
if we aren't going to keep the connection alive anyway.
Michael Brown [Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:31:31 +0000 (16:31 +0000)]
[DHCP] Add support for ProxyDHCP requests
The PXE spec is (as usual) unclear on precisely when ProxyDHCPREQUESTs
should be issued. We adapt the following, slightly paranoid approach:
If an offer contains an IP address, then it is a normal DHCPOFFER.
If an offer contains an option #60 "PXEClient", then it is a
ProxyDHCPOFFER. Note that the same packet can be both a normal
DHCPOFFER and a ProxyDHCPOFFER.
After receiving the normal DHCPACK, if we have received a
ProxyDHCPOFFER, we unicast a ProxyDHCPREQUEST back to the ProxyDHCP
server on port 4011. If we time out waiting for a ProxyDHCPACK, we
treat this as a non-fatal error.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:12:19 +0000 (15:12 -0700)]
[PXEXT] Change the PXE return code for EWOULDBLOCK
Change the PXE return code for EWOULDBLOCK from PXENV_STATUS_FAILURE
to PXENV_STATUS_TFTP_OPEN. This code is only used by the FILE_READ
PXEXT call, and is necessary to distinguish "error" from "no data" in
that call.
(The only other nonblocking call is UDP_READ, where the caller doesn't
care about the distinction, however, gPXE doesn't use EWOULDBLOCK
internally to represent this condition in that code.)
Michael Brown [Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:06:03 +0000 (21:06 +0000)]
[Settings] Add per-netdevice settings block
Add a configuration settings block for each net device. This will
provide the parent scope for settings applicable only to that network
device (e.g. non-volatile options stored on the NIC, options obtained via
DHCP, etc.).
Michael Brown [Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:06:07 +0000 (04:06 +0000)]
[Settings] Start revamping the configuration settings API.
Add the concept of an abstract configuration setting, comprising a (DHCP)
tag value and an associated byte sequence.
Add the concept of a settings namespace.
Add functions for extracting string, IPv4 address, and signed and
unsigned integer values from configuration settings (analogous to
dhcp_snprintf(), dhcp_ipv4_option(), etc.).
Update functions for parsing and formatting named/typed options to work
with new settings API.
Update NVO commands and config UI to use new settings API.
Michael Brown [Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:13:11 +0000 (04:13 +0000)]
[Settings] Allow encapsulated options to be specified as named settings
Allow encapsulated options to be specified as e.g. "175.3". As a
side-effect, change the separator character for the type field from "." to
":"; for example, the IP address pseudo-option is now "175.3:ipv4".
show_setting() and related functions now return an "actual length" in the
style of snprintf(). This is to allow consumers to allocate buffers large
enough to hold the formatted setting.
Michael Brown [Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:26:46 +0000 (13:26 +0000)]
[prefix] Cope with image source addresses outside base memory
When PMM is used, the gPXE image source will no longer be in base memory.
Decompression of .text16 and .data16 can therefore no longer be done in
real mode.
Michael Brown [Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:02:12 +0000 (12:02 +0000)]
[PXE] Improve PnP/BBS detection
Use BBS installation check to see if we need to hook INT19 even on a PnP
BIOS.
Verify that $PnP signature is paragraph-aligned; bochs/qemu BIOS provides
a dummy $PnP signature with no valid entry point, and deliberately
unaligns the signature to indicate that it is not properly valid.
Michael Brown [Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:46:55 +0000 (11:46 +0000)]
[PXE] Work around a buffer-size bug in WinPE
WinPE's pxeboot.n12 takes the BufferLimit returned by gPXE (indicating
the size of gPXE's internal DHCP packet buffers) and erroneously passes
it in as BufferSize (indicating the size of pxeboot.n12's DHCP packet
buffer). If these don't match, then pxeboot.n12 ends up instructing gPXE
to overwrite parts of its data segment.
Change gPXE's internal DHCP packet buffers to be exactly
sizeof(BOOTPLAYER_t) bytes to work around this problem.
Michael Brown [Sun, 9 Mar 2008 22:13:07 +0000 (22:13 +0000)]
[PXE] Add PMM support to romprefix.S (untested)
ROM initialisation vector now attempts to allocate a 2MB block using
PMM. If successful, it copies the ROM image to this block, then
shrinks the ROM image to allow for more option ROMs. If unsuccessful,
it leaves the ROM as-is.
ROM BEV now attempts to return to the BIOS, resorting to INT 18 only
if the BIOS stack has been corrupted.
Michael Brown [Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:37:34 +0000 (15:37 +0000)]
[Makefile] Use bin/VVVVDDDD.rom instead of bin/pci_VVVV_DDDD.rom
The generate-by-PCI-device-ID rules (bin/pci_VVVV_DDDD.rom) are generally
used for building actual ROM images to be burned, and the burning
utilities generally run under some DOS variant. Change the filename from
pci_VVVV_DDDD.rom to VVVVDDDD.rom so that it is compatible with the DOS
8.3-character filename limit.
Michael Brown [Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:16:30 +0000 (18:16 +0000)]
[PXEXT] Add PXENV_FILE_EXEC call to PXE extensions API.
This allows pxelinux to execute arbitrary gPXE commands. This is
remarkably unsafe (not least because some of the commands will assume
full ownership of memory and do nasty things like edit the e820 map
underneath the calling pxelinux), but it does allow access to the
"sanboot" command.
RFC 4390 provides for the DHCP client identifier to contain the link-layer
hardware type and MAC address when the MAC address exceeds 16 bytes.
However, the hardware type field is only 8 bits; we were assuming 16 bits.
Michael Brown [Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:59:56 +0000 (13:59 +0000)]
[Infiniband] Add preliminary support for multi-port devices.
Arbel and Hermon cards both have multiple ports. Add the
infrastructure required to register each port as a separate IB
device. Don't yet register more than one port, since registration
will currently fail unless a valid link is detected.
Use ib_*_{set,get}_{drv,owner}data wrappers to access driver- and
owner-private data on Infiniband structures.