The RS bit is used to instruct the NIC to update the TX descriptor
status byte. The RPS bit is used to instruct the NIC to defer this
update until after the packet has been transmitted on the wire (rather
than merely read into the transmit FIFO).
The driver currently sets RPS but not RS. Some e1000 models seem to
interpret this as implying that the status byte should be updated;
some don't. On the ones that don't, we never see any TX completions
and so rapidly run out of TX buffers.
Fix by setting the RS bit in the TX descriptor. (We don't care about
when the packet reaches the wire, so don't bother setting the RPS
bit.)
Reported-by: Miroslav Halas <miroslav.halas@bankofamerica.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[hermon] Ensure hardware is quiescent when no interfaces are open
WinPE has been observed to call PXENV_UNDI_SHUTDOWN but not
PXENV_STOP_UNDI. This means that Hermon hardware is left partially
active (firmware running and one event queue mapped) when WinPE starts
up, which can cause a Blue Screen of Death.
Fix by ensuring that the hardware is left quiescent (with the firmware
stopped) when no interfaces are open.
Reported-by: Itay Gazit <itayg@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipoib] Report packets as broadcast when ambiguous
Avoid spurious matches for peer key 0 against empty peer cache
entries, and set the LL_MULTICAST flag in addition to LL_BROADCAST.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[rtl8139] Perform only 8-bit ioport access on the ChipCmd register
The ChipCmd register is only an 8-bit register. The 16-bit access
used by iPXE was causing an issue when used with qemu emulated rtl8139
device which was improperly aligning IOs.
Signed-off-by: Julian Pidancet <julian.pidancet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[arbel] Add (not-yet-functional) support for RC queue pairs
Arbel seems to crash the system as soon as the first send WQE
completes on an RC queue pair. (NOPs complete successfully, so this
is a problem specific to the work queue rather than the completion
queue.) The cause of this problem has remained unknown for over a
year.
Check in the non-functioning code to avoid bit-rot, and in the hope
that someone will find the fix.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Allow link layer to report broadcast/multicast packets via pull()
Allow the link layer to directly report whether or not a packet is
multicast or broadcast at the time of calling pull(), rather than
relying on heuristics to determine this at a later stage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[process] Pass containing object pointer to process step() methods
Give the step() method a pointer to the containing object, rather than
a pointer to the process. This is consistent with the operation of
interface methods, and allows a single function to serve as both an
interface method and a process step() method.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[hermon] Remove temporary workaround for missing BOFM mport support
This reverts commit 15c1200 ("[hermon] Work around missing mport
support in current BOFM implementations").
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[hermon] Work around missing mport support in current BOFM implementations
Current BOFM versions are unable to create entries with mport>1, which
means that only the port 1 MAC address can be explicitly specified.
Work around this by using the provided MAC address as a base address
for all subsequent ports. For example, if BOFM assigns the address
00:1A:64:76:00:09 for port 1
then we will assign the addresses
00:1A:64:76:00:09 for port 1
00:1A:64:76:00:0a for port 2
Future BOFM versions that may correctly support mport will work with
this scheme without modification provided that the BOFM entries are
created in increasing order of mport. Since BOFM tools tend to
generate entries in increasing order (of slot, port, etc), this is not
an unreasonable compromise.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[forcedeth] Never change the NVREG_TRANSMITPOLL_MAC_ADDR_REV flag
iPXE operates the forcedeth NIC in promiscuous mode, and never changes
the unicast MAC address filter registers. We should not therefore set
the flag indicating (to other drivers loaded later) that the MAC
address order has already been corrected.
Reported-by: Tal Aloni <tal.aloni.il@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tal Aloni <tal.aloni.il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[forcedeth] Remove software unicast MAC address filter
The forcedeth driver currently implements unicast MAC address
filtering in software. This is almost invariably the wrong thing to
do (since the network stack must already be able to cope with unwanted
packets) and it breaks FCoE (which requires the card to operate in
promiscuous mode).
Also, the implementation is buggy: is_local_ether_addr() is used to
check for a locally-assigned Ethernet address (not to check for a
unicast address), and the current link-layer address is in
netdev->ll_addr, not netdev->hw_addr.
Fix by removing this code.
Reported-by: Tal Aloni <tal.aloni.il@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tal Aloni <tal.aloni.il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[forcedeth] Avoid unused-but-set variable warning in gcc 4.6
Avoid unused-but-set variable warning in gcc 4.6 which was introduced
by commit 9215b7f ("[forcedeth] Clear the MII link status register on
link status changes").
Signed-off-by: Thomas Miletich <thomas.miletich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Formalise notion of setting applicability
Expose a function setting_applies() to allow a caller to determine
whether or not a particular setting is applicable to a particular
settings block.
Restrict DHCP-backed settings blocks to accepting only DHCP-based
settings.
Restrict network device settings blocks to accepting only DHCP-based
settings and network device-specific settings such as "mac".
Inspired-by: Glenn Brown <glenn@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
From a cursory examination, it appears as though the calculation of
tx_available is redundant, since eepro_transmit() waits for transmit
completion before returning anyway.
Reported-by: Ralph Giles <giles@thaumas.net>
Tested-by: Ralph Giles <giles@thaumas.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[e1000] Remove unused variable when ICR register is simply cleared
On reset and close, the ICR register is read to clear any pending
interrupts, but the value is simply ignored. Avoid assigning the
value to a variable, to inhibit a warning from gcc 4.6.
Also fix a potential race condition in reset routines which clear
interrupts before disabling them.
Reported-by: Ralph Giles <giles@thaumas.net>
Tested-by: Ralph Giles <giles@thaumas.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[igbvf] Remove some unused Linux-specific portions of igbvf.h
These unused portions trigger a compiler warning under gcc 4.6, due to
the ambiguity over the "page" field in struct igbvf_buffer.
Reported-by: Ralph Giles <giles@thaumas.net>
Tested-by: Ralph Giles <giles@thaumas.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
In a virtual environment such as qemu, we can legitimately receive
packets less than 64 bytes in length, such as ARP replies. These are
currently discarded, causing most IPv4 communication to fail.
Fix by ignoring the RFDShort bit when receiving packets.
Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When chainloading rtl8139.pxe from an old Etherboot rtl8139.zrom, iPXE
can end up misreading the first word of the MAC address from the
EEPROM as being all zeroes. This is presumably because Etherboot has
left the serial EEPROM in an unexpected state.
Fix by using the chip select line to reset the SPI device before we
start accessing it.
Reported-by: Mandar U Jog <mandarjog@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mandar U Jog <mandarjog@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown