This allows settings to be expanded in a way that is safe to include
within a URI string, such as
kernel http://10.0.0.1/boot.php?mf=${manufacturer:uristring}
where the ${manufacturer} setting may contain characters that are not
permitted (or have reserved purposes) within a URI.
Since whitespace characters will be URI-encoded (e.g. "%20" for a
space character), this also works around the problem that spaces
within an expanded setting would cause the shell to split command-line
arguments incorrectly.
[settings] Avoid overwriting the start of .text in fetch_string_setting()
fetch_string_setting() was subtracting one from the length of the
to-be-NUL-terminated buffer in order to obtain the length of the
unterminated buffer to be passed to fetch_setting(). This works
extremely well unless the length of the to-be-NUL-terminated buffer is
zero, at which point we end up giving fetch_setting() a buffer of
length -1UL, thereby inviting it to overwrite as much memory as it
wants...
[cmdline] Add setting expansion using ${...} syntax
Allow settings to be expanded in arbitrary commands, such as
kernel http://10.0.0.1/boot.php?uuid=${uuid}
Also add the "echo" command, as being the easiest way to test this
features.
[ui] Add progress dots while waiting on any foreground job
Print one dot per second while waiting in monojob.c (e.g. for DHCP,
for file downloads, etc.), to inform user that the system has not
locked up.
Patch contributed by Andrew Schran <aschran@google.com>, minor
modification by me.
[iSCSI] Support Windows Server 2008 direct iSCSI installation
Add yet another ugly hack to iscsiboot.c, this time to allow the user to
inhibit the shutdown/removal of the iSCSI INT13 device (and the network
devices, since they are required for the iSCSI device to function).
On the plus side, the fact that shutdown() now takes flags to
differentiate between shutdown-for-exit and shutdown-for-boot means that
another ugly hack (to allow returning via the PXE stack on BIOSes that
have broken INT 18 calls) will be easier.
I feel dirty.
Clearing the LOADED flag actually prevents users from doing clever things
such as loading an image, then loading a patch image, then executing the
first image. (image_exec() checks for IMAGE_LOADED, so this sequence of
operations will fail if the LOADED flag gets cleared.)
This reverts commit 14c080020f.
[image] Clear LOADED flag on all other images when loading a new image
Loading an image may overwrite part or all of any previously-loaded
images, so we should clear the LOADED flag for all images prior to
attempting to load a new image.
This commit implements GDB over UDP. Using UDP is more complex than
serial and has required some restructuring.
The GDB stub is now built using one or both of GDBSERIAL and GDBUDP
config.h options.
To enter the debugger, execute the gPXE shell command:
gdbstub <transport> [<options>...]
Where <transport> is "serial" or "udp". For "udp", the name of a
configured network device is required:
gdbstub udp net0
The GDB stub listens on UDP port 43770 by default.
[console] Call cpu_nap() only if there is no input waiting
Avoid calling cpu_nap() until after we have determined that there is
no input ready to read. This avoids delaying for one timer interrupt
(~50ms) in the case of
if ( iskey() )
char = getkey()
which happens to be present in monojob.c, which is where we spend most
of our time looping (e.g. during any download).
This should eliminate the irritating tendency of gPXE to lose
keypresses.
Discovered on a Dell system where the serial port seems to send in a
constant stream of 0xff characters; this wouldn't be a problem in
itself except that each one triggers the 50ms delay (as mentioned
above), which really kills performance.
[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.
The GDBSYM config.h option was an attempt at QEMU GDB debugging. I have
removed the code since it is unused and may confuse people wanting to
use the GDB stub.
[SMBIOS] Interpret UUIDs as being in network-endian order
Various specification documents disagree about the byte ordering of
UUIDs. However, SMBIOS seems to use the standard in which everything is
in network-endian order.
This doesn't affect anything sent on the wire; only what gets printed on
the screen when the "uuid" variable is displayed.
[Settings] Remove assumption that all settings have DHCP tag values
Allow for settings to be described by something other than a DHCP option
tag if desirable. Currently used only for the MAC address setting.
Separate out fake DHCP packet creation code from dhcp.c to fakedhcp.c.
Remove notion of settings from dhcppkt.c.
Rationalise dhcp.c to use settings API only for final registration of the
DHCP options, rather than using {store,fetch}_setting throughout.
Add the notion of the settings hierarchy, complete with
register/unregister routines.
Rename set->store and get->fetch to avoid naming conflicts with get/put
as used in reference counting.
[Settings] Start revamping the configuration settings API.
Add the concept of an abstract configuration setting, comprising a (DHCP)
tag value and an associated byte sequence.
Add the concept of a settings namespace.
Add functions for extracting string, IPv4 address, and signed and
unsigned integer values from configuration settings (analogous to
dhcp_snprintf(), dhcp_ipv4_option(), etc.).
Update functions for parsing and formatting named/typed options to work
with new settings API.
Update NVO commands and config UI to use new settings API.
Timers are sometimes required before the call to initialise(), so we
cannot rely on initialise() to set up the timers before use.
Also fix a potential integer overflow issue in generic_currticks_udelay()
Add missing comments to timer code.
Lock system if no suitable timer source is found.
Fix initialisation order so that timers are initialised before code that
needs to use them.
[Settings] Allow encapsulated options to be specified as named settings
Allow encapsulated options to be specified as e.g. "175.3". As a
side-effect, change the separator character for the type field from "." to
":"; for example, the IP address pseudo-option is now "175.3:ipv4".
[Settings] Add int16, int32 and hex-string configuration setting types
Add parse and display routines for 16-bit and 32-bit integer configuration
settings.
Add parse and display routines for hex-string configuration settings.
Assume hex-string as a configuration setting type if no type is explicitly
specified.
show_setting() and related functions now return an "actual length" in the
style of snprintf(). This is to allow consumers to allocate buffers large
enough to hold the formatted setting.