We do not set up any kind of virtual addressing before invoking an
ELFBoot image. Reject if the image's program headers indicate that
virtual addresses are not equal to physical addresses.
This avoids problems when loading some RHEL5 kernels, which seem to
include ELFBoot headers using virtual addressing. With this change,
these kernels are no longer detected as ELFBoot, and so may be
(correctly) detected as bzImage instead.
Reported-by: Torgeir.Wulfsberg@kongsberg.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Solaris assumes that there is enough space above the Multiboot modules
to use as a decompression and scratch area. This assumption is
invalid when using iPXE, which places the Multiboot modules near the
top of (32-bit) memory.
Fix by copying the modules to an area of memory immediately following
the loaded kernel.
Debugged-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Debugged-by: Scott McWhirter <scottm@joyent.com>
Tested-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Refactor the {load,exec} image operations as {probe,exec}. This makes
the probe mechanism cleaner, eliminates some forward declarations,
avoids holding magic state in image->priv, eliminates the possibility
of screwing up between the "load" and "exec" stages, and makes the
documentation simpler since the concept of "loading" (as distinct from
"executing") no longer needs to be explained.
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resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain.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>
[elf] Work around entry point bug in NetBSD kernels
NetBSD kernels are multiboot ELF kernels with an entry point
incorrectly specified as a virtual address rather than a physical
address.
Work around this by looking for the segment that could plausibly
contain the entry point address (interpreted as either a physical or
virtual address), and using that to determine the eventual physical
entry point.
In the event of any ambiguity, precedence is given to interpretation
of the entry point as a physical address.
[i386] Change [u]int32_t to [unsigned] int, rather than [unsigned] long
This brings us in to line with Linux definitions, and also simplifies
adding x86_64 support since both platforms have 2-byte shorts, 4-byte
ints and 8-byte long longs.
[ELF] Add ability to boot ELF images generated by wraplinux and mkelfImage
Delete ELF as a generic image type. The method for invoking an
ELF-based image (as well as any tables that must be set up to allow it
to boot) will always depend on the specific architecture. core/elf.c
now only provides the elf_load() function, to avoid duplicating
functionality between ELF-based image types.
Add arch/i386/image/elfboot.c, to handle the generic case of 32-bit
x86 ELF images. We don't currently set up any multiboot tables, ELF
notes, etc. This seems to be sufficient for loading kernels generated
using both wraplinux and coreboot's mkelfImage.
Note that while Etherboot 5.4 allowed ELF images to return, we don't.
There is no callback mechanism for the loaded image to shut down gPXE,
which means that we have to shut down before invoking the image. This
means that we lose device state, protection against being trampled on,
etc. It is not safe to continue afterwards.
Provide registration mechanism for loaded images, so that we can e.g.
refer to them by name from the command line, or build them into a
multiboot module list.
Use setting image->type to disambiguate between "not my image" and "bad
image"; this avoids relying on specific values of the error code.
Michael Brown