[efi] Use the EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL as an entropy source if available
Entropy gathering via timer ticks is slow under UEFI (of the order of
20-30 seconds on some machines). Use the EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL if
available, to speed up the process of entropy gathering.
Note that some implementations (including EDK2) will fail if we
request fewer than 32 random bytes at a time, and that the RNG
protocol provides no guarantees about the amount of entropy provided
by a call to GetRNG(). We take the (hopefully pessimistic) view that
a 32-byte block returned by GetRNG() will contain at least the 1.3
bits of entropy claimed by min_entropy_per_sample().
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resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain.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>
[x86_64] Add support for compilation as an x86_64 binary
Currently the only supported platform for x86_64 is EFI.
Building an EFI64 gPXE requires a version of gcc that supports
__attribute__((ms_abi)). This currently means a development build of
gcc; the feature should be present when gcc 4.4 is released.
In the meantime; you can grab a suitable gcc tree from
git://git.etherboot.org/scm/people/mcb30/gcc/.git
Michael Brown