The Fibre Channel Protocol provides a mechanism for transporting SCSI
commands via a Fibre Channel fabric.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[block] Replace gPXE block-device API with an iPXE asynchronous interface
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>
Add the tap driver that can be used like:
$ ./ipxe.linux --net tap,if=tap0,mac=00:0c:29:c5:39:a1
The if setting is mandatory.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
There exists an smbios userspace library so implementing this is
probably possible, but doesn't seem really important to have in
userspace. Hence provide a dummy implementation returning an error.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add user access API for linux.
On linux userspace virtual == user == phys addresses. Physical
addresses also being the same is wrong, but there is no general way of
converting userspace addresses to physical as what appears to be
contiguous in userspace is physically fragmented. Currently only the
DMA memory is special-cased, but its conversion to bus addresses is
done in phys_to_bus. This is known to break virtio as it is passing
phys addresses to the virtual device.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add linux console using stdin/out. Configure the attached terminal for
readline use.
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>
[netdevice] Provide a test mechanism for discarding packets at random
Setting NETDEV_DISCARD_RATE to a non-zero value will cause one in
every NETDEV_DISCARD_RATE packets to be discarded at random on both
the transmit and receive datapaths, allowing the robustness of
upper-layer network protocols to be tested even in simulation
environments that provide wholly reliable packet transmission.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Include config/local/$file in config/$file where it makes sense and
create empty local configs during build if not present.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
The NMB protocol code came from legacy Etherboot and was never updated
to work as a gPXE protocol. There has been no demand for this protocol,
so this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The NFS protocol code came from legacy Etherboot and was never updated
to work as a gPXE protocol. There has been no demand for this protocol,
so this patch removes it.
I have an unfinished NFSv3 over TCP implementation for gPXE that can be
used as the base for new work, should we want to resurrect this
protocol.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The FSP protocol code came from legacy Etherboot and was never updated
to work as a gPXE protocol. There has been no demand for this protocol,
so this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
For extremely tight space requirements and specific applications, it is
sometimes desirable to create gPXE images that cannot provide the PXE API
functionality to client programs. Add a configuration header option,
PXE_STACK, that can be removed to remove this stack. Also add PXE_MENU
to control the PXE boot menu, which most uses of gPXE do not need.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
Wireless gPXE images are already so large that user-friendliness
seems to trump ROM-size friendliness in this case.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
WEP is a highly flawed cryptosystem, barely better than no encryption at all,
but many people still use it. It does have the advantage of being very simple
and small in code size.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
[iwmgmt] Add wireless management commands and text for common errors
Add commands `iwstat' (to list 802.11-specific status information for
802.11 devices) and `iwlist' (to scan for available networks and print
a list along with security information).
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
[linker] Add mechanism for subsystem-dependent configuration options
It is often the case that some module of gPXE is only relevant if the
subsystem it depends on is already being included. For instance,
commands to manage wireless interfaces are quite useless if no
compiled-in driver has pulled in the wireless networking stack. There
may be a user-modifiable configuration options for these dependent
modules, but even if enabled, they should not be included when they
would be useless.
Solve this by allowing the creation of config_subsystem.c, for
configuration directives like those in the global config.c that should
only be considered when subsystem.c is included in the final gPXE
build.
For consistency, move core/config.c to the config/ directory, where
the other config_subsystem.c files will eventually reside.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
SRP is the SCSI RDMA Protocol. It allows for a method of SAN booting
whereby the target is responsible for reading and writing data using
Remote DMA directly to the initiator's memory. The software initiator
merely sends and receives SCSI commands; it never has to touch the
actual data.
These commands can be used to activate or deactivate the PXE API (on a
specifiable network interface).
This is currently of limited use, since most image formats will call
shutdown() before booting the image, meaning that the underlying net
device gets shut down during remove_devices() anyway.
[efi] Use EFI-native mechanism for accessing SMBIOS table
EFI provides a copy of the SMBIOS table accessible via the EFI system
table, which we should use instead of manually scanning through the
F000:0000 segment.
[romprefix] Add vendor branding facilities and guidelines
Some hardware vendors have been known to remove all gPXE-related
branding from ROMs that they build. While this is not prohibited by
the GPL, it is a little impolite.
Add a facility for adding branding messages via two #defines
(PRODUCT_NAME and PRODUCT_SHORT_NAME) in config/general.h. This
should accommodate all known OEM-mandated branding requirements.
Vendors with branding requirements that cannot be satisfied by using
PRODUCT_NAME and/or PRODUCT_SHORT_NAME should contact us so that we
can extended this facility as necessary.
[efi] Add EFI image format and basic runtime environment
We have EFI APIs for CPU I/O, PCI I/O, timers, console I/O, user
access and user memory allocation.
EFI executables are created using the vanilla GNU toolchain, with the
EXE header handcrafted in assembly and relocations generated by a
custom efilink utility.
The userptr_t is now the fundamental type that gets used for conversions.
For example, virt_to_phys() is implemented in terms of virt_to_user() and
user_to_phys().
Michael Brown