[smsc95xx] Allow for multiple methods for obtaining the MAC address
The SMSC95xx devices tend to be used in embedded systems with a
variety of ad-hoc mechanisms for storing the MAC address.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[smsc95xx] Add driver for SMSC/Microchip LAN95xx USB Ethernet NICs
Tested using QEMU and usbredir to expose the LAN9512 chip present on a
Raspberry Pi.
There is a known issue with the LAN9512: an extra two bytes are
appended to every transmitted packet. These two bytes comprise:
{ 0x00, 0x08 } if packet length == 0 (mod 8)
{ CRC[0], 0x00 } if packet length == 7 (mod 8)
{ CRC[0], CRC[1] } otherwise
The extra bytes are appended whether the Ethernet CRC is generated
manually or added automatically by the hardware. The issue occurs
with the Linux kernel driver as well as the iPXE driver. It appears
to be an undocumented hardware errata.
TCP/IP traffic is not affected, since the IP header length field
causes the extraneous bytes to be discarded by the receiver. However,
protocols that rely on the length of the Ethernet frame (such as FCoE
or iPXE's "lotest" protocol) will be unusable on this hardware.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
On some models (notably ICH), the PHY reset mechanism appears to be
broken. In particular, the PHY_CTRL register will be correctly loaded
from NVM but the values will not be propagated to the "OEM bits" PHY
register. This typically has the effect of dropping the link speed to
10Mbps.
Since the original version of this driver in commit 945e428 ("[intel]
Replace driver for Intel Gigabit NICs"), we have always worked around
this problem by skipping the PHY reset if the link is already up.
Enhance this workaround by explicitly checking for known-broken PCI
IDs.
Reported-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Tested-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Make the class ID a property of the USB driver (rather than a property
of the USB device ID), and allow USB drivers to specify a wildcard ID
for any of the three component IDs (class, subclass, or protocol).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[usb] Select preferred USB device configuration based on driver score
Generate a score for each possible USB device configuration based on
the available driver support, and select the configuration with the
highest score. This will allow us to prefer ECM over RNDIS (for
devices which support both) and will allow us to meaningfully select a
configuration even when we have drivers available for all functions
(e.g. when exposing unused functions via EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[efi] Remove raw EFI_HANDLE values from debug messages
The raw EFI_HANDLE value is almost never useful to know, and simply
adds noise to the already verbose debug messages. Improve the
legibility of debug messages by using only the name generated by
efi_handle_name().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipoib] Fix a race when chain-loading undionly.kpxe in IPoIB
The Infiniband link status change callback ipoib_link_state_changed()
may be called while the IPoIB device is closed, in which case there
will not be an IPoIB queue pair to be joined to the IPv4 broadcast
group. This leads to NULL pointer dereferences in ib_mcast_attach()
and ib_mcast_detach().
Fix by not attempting to join (or leave) the broadcast group unless we
actually have an IPoIB queue pair.
Signed-off-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Multicast MAC addresses will never have REMAC cache entries, and the
corresponding multicast IPoIB MAC address cannot be obtained simply by
issuing an ARP request.
For the trivial volume of multicast packets that we expect to send in
any realistic scenario, the simplest solution is to send them as
broadcasts instead.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipoib] Attempt to generate ARPs as needed to repopulate REMAC cache
The only way to map an eIPoIB MAC address (REMAC) to an IPoIB MAC
address is to intercept an incoming ARP request or reply.
If we do not have an REMAC cache entry for a particular destination
MAC address, then we cannot transmit the packet. This can arise in at
least two situations:
- An external program (e.g. a PXE NBP using the UNDI API) may attempt
to transmit to a destination MAC address that has been obtained by
some method other than ARP.
- Memory pressure may have caused REMAC cache entries to be
discarded. This is fairly likely on a busy network, since REMAC
cache entries are created for all received (broadcast) ARP
requests. (We can't sensibly avoid creating these cache entries,
since they are required in order to send an ARP reply, and when we
are being used via the UNDI API we may have no knowledge of which
IP addresses are "ours".)
Attempt to ameliorate the situation by generating a semi-spurious ARP
request whenever we find a missing REMAC cache entry. This will
hopefully trigger an ARP reply, which would then provide us with the
information required to populate the REMAC cache.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
As with the neighbour cache, discarding an REMAC cache entry is
potentially very disruptive.
Originally-fixed-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[intel] Fix operation when physical function has jumbo frames enabled
When jumbo frames are enabled, the Linux ixgbe physical function
driver will disable the virtual function's receive datapath by
default, and will enable it only if the virtual function negotiates
API version 1.1 (or higher) and explicitly selects an MTU.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[intel] Add support for mailbox used by virtual functions
Virtual functions use a mailbox to communicate with the physical
function driver: this covers functionality such as obtaining the MAC
address.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[intel] Allow for the use of advanced TX descriptors
Intel virtual function NICs almost work with the use of "legacy"
transmit and receive descriptors (which are backwards compatible right
back to the original Intel Gigabit NICs).
Unfortunately the "TX switching" feature (which allows for VM<->VM
traffic to be looped back within the NIC itself) does not work when a
legacy TX descriptor is used: the packet is instead sent onto the
wire.
Fix by allowing for the use of an "advanced" TX descriptor (containing
exactly the same information as is found in the "legacy" descriptor).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[base16] Add buffer size parameter to base16_encode() and base16_decode()
The current API for Base16 (and Base64) encoding requires the caller
to always provide sufficient buffer space. This prevents the use of
the generic encoding/decoding functionality in some situations, such
as in formatting the hex setting types.
Implement a generic hex_encode() (based on the existing
format_hex_setting()), implement base16_encode() and base16_decode()
in terms of the more generic hex_encode() and hex_decode(), and update
all callers to provide the additional buffer length parameter.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ath9k] Remove confusing logic inversion in an ANI variable
This changed in Linux kernel the same way in commit 7067e701
("ath9k_hw: remove confusing logic inversion in an ANI variable") by
Felix Fietkau.
Additionally this fixes "error: logical not is only applied to the
left hand side of comparison" with GCC 5.1.0.
Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[intel] Add PCI device IDs for Intel I218-LM and I218-V
I218-LM (rev 3) is found in Lenovo Thinkpad X250. The remaining
device IDs are from linux/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/hw.h
Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[realtek] Do not attempt to access EEPROM on RTL8169 chips
On some RTL8169 onboard NICs (observed with a Lenovo ThinkPad 11e),
the EEPROM is not merely not present: any attempt to read from the
non-existent EEPROM will crash and reboot the system.
The equivalent code to read from the EEPROM was removed from the Linux
r8169 driver in 2009 with a comment suggesting that it was similarly
found to be unreliable on some systems.
Fix by accessing the EEPROM only on RTL8139 NICs, and assuming that
the MAC address will always be correctly preset on RTL8169 NICs.
Reported-by: Evan Prohaska <eprohaska@edkey.org>
Tested-by: Evan Prohaska <eprohaska@edkey.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[intel] Force RX polling on VMware emulated 82545em
The emulated Intel 82545em in some versions of VMware (observed with
ESXi v5.1) seems to sometimes fail to set the RXT0 bit in the
interrupt cause register (ICR), causing iPXE to stop receiving
packets. Work around this problem (for the 82545em only) by always
polling the receive queue regardless of the state of the ICR.
Reported-by: Slava Bendersky <volga629@networklab.ca>
Tested-by: Slava Bendersky <volga629@networklab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[efi] Poll for TX completions only when there is an outstanding TX buffer
At least one NII implementation (in a Microsoft Surface tablet) seems
to fail to report the absence (sic) of TX completions properly. Work
around this by checking for TX completions only when we expect to see
one.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[efi] Poll media status only if advertised as supported
Some NII implementations will fail the GET_STATUS operation if we
request the media status. Fix by doing so only if GET_INIT_INFO
reported that media status is supported.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[smsc75xx] Move RX FIFO overflow message to DBGLVL_EXTRA
RX FIFO overflow is almost inevitable since the (usable) USB2 bus
bandwidth is approximately one quarter of the Ethernet bandwidth.
Avoid flooding the console with RX FIFO overflow messages in a
standard debug build.
With TCP SACK implemented, the RX FIFO overflow no longer causes a
catastrophic drop in throughput. Experimentation shows that HTTP
downloads now progress at a fairly smooth 250Mbps, which is around the
maximum speed attainable for a USB2 NIC.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[smsc75xx] Add driver for SMSC/Microchip LAN75xx USB Ethernet NICs
This driver is functional but any downloads via a TCP-based protocol
tend to perform poorly. The 1Gbps Ethernet line rate is substantially
higher than the 480Mbps (in practice around 280Mbps) provided by USB2,
and the device has only 32kB of internal buffer memory. Our 256kB TCP
receive window therefore rapidly overflows the RX FIFO, leading to
multiple dropped packets (usually within the same TCP window) and
hence a low overall throughput.
Reducing the TCP window size so that the RX FIFO does not overflow
greatly increases throughput, but is not a general-purpose solution.
Further investigation is required to determine how other OSes
(e.g. Linux) cope with this scenario. It is possible that
implementing TCP SACK would provide some benefit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Most devices expose at least the link up/down status via a bit in a
MAC register, since the MAC generally already needs to know whether or
not the link is up. Some devices (e.g. the SMSC75xx USB NIC) expose
this information to software only via the MII registers.
Provide a generic mii_check_link() implementation to check the BMSR
and report the link status via netdev_link_{up,down}().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[xen] Set the "feature-rx-notify" flag for netfront devices
iPXE already sends RX notifications to the backend when needed, but
does not set the "feature-rx-notify" flag. As of XenServer 6.5, this
flag is mandatory and omitting it will cause the backend to fail.
Fix by setting the "feature-rx-notify" flag, to inform the backend
that we will send notifications.
Reported-by: Shalom Bhooshi <shalom.bhooshi@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown