[pxeprefix] Place temporary stack after iPXE binary
Some BIOSes (observed on a Supermicro system with an AMI BIOS) seem to
use the area immediately below 0x7c00 to store data related to the
boot process. This data is currently liable to be overwritten by the
temporary stack used while decompressing and installing iPXE.
Try to avoid any such problems by placing the temporary stack
immediately after the loaded iPXE binary. Any memory used by the
stack could then potentially have been overwritten anyway by a larger
binary.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[bzimage] Update setup_move_size only for protocol versions 2.00 and 2.01
The setup_move_size field is not defined in protocol versions earlier
than 2.00 (and is obsolete in versions later than 2.01). In binaries
using versions earlier than 2.00, the relevant location is likely to
contain executable code.
Interestingly, this bug has been present since support for pre-2.00
protocol versions was added in 2009, and has been unexpectedly
modifying the memtest86+ code fragment:
mov $0x92, %dx
inb %dx, %al
Fortuitously, the modification exactly overwrote the value loaded into
%dx, and so the net effect was limited to causing Fast Gate A20
detection to always fail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[undi] Align the received frame payload for faster processing
The undinet driver always has to make a copy of the received frame
into an I/O buffer. Align this copy sensibly so that subsequent
operations are as fast as possible.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[romprefix] Treat 0xffffffff as an error return from PMM
PMM defines the return code 0xffffffff as meaning "unsupported
function". It's hard to imagine a PMM BIOS that doesn't support
pmmAllocate(), but apparently such things do exist.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[romprefix] Allow .mrom image to be placed anywhere within the BAR
A .mrom image currently assumes that it is the first image within the
expansion ROM BAR, which may not be correct when multiple images are
present.
Fix by scanning through the BAR until we locate an image matching our
build ID.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[romprefix] Add a dummy ROM header to cover the .mrom payload
The header of a .mrom image declares its length to be only a few
kilobytes; the remainder is accessed via a sideband mechanism. This
makes it difficult to append an additional ROM image, such as an EFI
ROM.
Add a second, dummy ROM header covering the payload portion of the
.mrom image, allowing consumers to locate any appended ROM images in
the usual way.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The WinCE, a.out and FreeBSD loaders are designed to be #included by
core/loader.c, which no longer exists. These old loaders are not
usable anymore and cause compilation failures when enabled in
config/general.h.
Signed-off-by: Marin Hannache <mareo@mareo.fr>
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>
[vmware] Allow settings to be specified in the VMware .vmx file
Allow iPXE settings to be specified in the .vmx file via the VMware
GuestInfo mechanism. For example:
guestinfo.ipxe.filename = "http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php"
guestinfo.ipxe.dns = "192.168.0.1"
guestinfo.ipxe.net0.ip = "192.168.0.15"
guestinfo.ipxe.net0.netmask = "255.255.255.0"
guestinfo.ipxe.net0.gateway = "192.168.0.1"
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[multiboot] Include full image URI in command line
Solaris kernels seem to rely on having the full kernel path present in
the multiboot command line; if only the kernel name is present then
the boot fails with the error message
krtld: failed to open 'unix'
Debugged-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Debugged-by: Scott McWhirter <scottm@joyent.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Using __from_text16() and __from_data16() in inline asm constraints
sometimes defeats gcc's ability to simplify expressions down to
compile-time constants.
Reported-by: Jason Kohles <jkohles@palantir.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[umalloc] Unhide umalloc()ed memory region when there are no allocations
At present, we always hide an extra sizeof(struct external_memory), to
account for the header on the lowest allocated block. This header
ceases to exist when there are no allocated blocks remaining.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Do not share ANSI escape context between lineconsole users
An ANSI escape sequence context cannot be shared between multiple
users. Make the ANSI escape sequence context part of the line console
definition and provide individual contexts for each user.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Exclude text-based UI output from logfile-based consoles
The output from text-based user interfaces such as the "config"
command is not generally meaningful for logfile-based consoles such as
syslog and vmconsole.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Allow usage to be defined independently for each console
Add the concept of a "console usage", such as "standard output" or
"debug messages". Allow usages to be associated with each console
independently. For example, to send debugging output via the serial
port, while preventing it from appearing on the local console:
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL
#define CONSOLE_PCBIOS ( CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL & ~CONSOLE_USAGE_DEBUG )
If no usages are explicitly specified, then a default set of usages
will be applied. For example:
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL
will have the same affect as
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[image] Simplify image management commands and internal API
Remove the name, cmdline, and action parameters from imgdownload() and
imgdownload_string(). These functions now simply download and return
an image.
Add the function imgacquire(), which will interpret a "name or URI
string" parameter and return either an existing image or a newly
downloaded image.
Use imgacquire() to merge similar image-management commands that
currently differ only by whether they take the name of an existing
image or the URI of a new image to download. For example, "chain" and
"imgexec" can now be merged.
Extend imgstat and imgfree commands to take an optional list of
images.
Remove the arbitrary restriction on the length of image names.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[bios] Set character attributes only when necessary
There is no INT 10 call for "display character with attribute,
advancing the cursor and scrolling the screen as necessary". We
therefore make two INT 10 calls: INT 10,09 to write the character with
its attribute at the current cursor position, and then INT 10,0e to
(re)write the character (leaving the attribute unchanged), advance the
cursor position and scroll as necessary.
This confuses the serial-over-LAN console redirection feature provided
by some BIOSes.
Fix by performing the INT10,09 only when necessary to change the
existing attribute.
Reported-by: Itay Gazit <itaygazit@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Itay Gazit <itaygazit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[i386] Use memory address constraints in __bswap_16s() and __bswap_64s()
Minimise code size by forcing the use of memory addresses for
__bswap_16s() and __bswap_64s(). (__bswap_32s() cannot avoid loading the
value into a register.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Fix a strict-aliasing error on certain versions of gcc.
Reported-by: Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[i386] Optimise byte-swapping functions and provide __bswap_{16,32,64}s()
Use the "bswap" instruction to shrink the size of byte-swapping code,
and provide the in-place variants __bswap_{16,32,64}s.
"bswap" is available only on 486 and later processors. (We already
assume the presence of "cpuid" and "rdtsc", which are available only
on Pentium and later processors.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[undi] Allow underlying PXE stack to construct link-layer header
Some PXE stacks (observed with a QLogic 8242) will always try to
prepend a link-layer header, even if the caller uses P_UNKNOWN to
indicate that the link-layer header has already been filled in. This
results in an invalid packet being transmitted.
Work around these faulty PXE stacks where possible by stripping the
existing link-layer header and allowing the PXE stack to (re)construct
the link-layer header itself.
Originally-fixed-by: Buck Huppmann <buckh@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The RTC-based entropy source uses the nanosecond-scale CPU TSC to
measure the time between two 1kHz interrupts generated by the CMOS
RTC. In a physical machine these clocks are driven from independent
crystals, resulting in some observable clock drift. In a virtual
machine, the CMOS RTC is typically emulated using host-OS
constructions such as SIGALRM.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[rng] Add ANS X9.82 Approved Source of Entropy Input
ANS X9.82 specifies several Approved Sources of Entropy Input (SEI).
One such SEI uses an entropy source as the Source of Entropy Input,
condensing each entropy source output after each GetEntropy call.
This can be implemented relatively cheaply in iPXE and avoids the need
to allocate potentially very large buffers.
(Note that the terms "entropy source" and "Source of Entropy Input"
are not synonyms within the context of ANS X9.82.)
Use the iPXE API mechanism to allow entropy sources to be selected at
compilation time.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[prefix] Delay initrd image copy until memory map is ready
initrd_init() calls umalloc() to allocate space for the initrd image,
but does so before hide_etherboot() has been called. It is therefore
possible for the initrd to end up overwriting iPXE itself.
Fix by converting initrd_init() from an init_fn to a startup_fn.
Originally-fixed-by: Till Straumann <strauman@slac.stanford.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[lkrnprefix] Copy command line before installing iPXE
The command line may be situated in an area of base memory that will
be overwritten by iPXE's real-mode segments, causing the command line
to be corrupted before it can be used.
Fix by creating a copy of the command line on the prefix stack (below
0x7c00) before installing the real-mode segments.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pxe] Provide PXENV_FILE_EXIT_HOOK only for ipxelinux.0 builds
PXENV_FILE_EXIT_HOOK is designed to allow ipxelinux.0 to unload both
the iPXE and pxelinux components without affecting the underlying PXE
stack. Unfortunately, it causes unexpected behaviour in other
situations, such as when loading a non-embedded pxelinux.0 via
undionly.kpxe. For example:
PXE ROM -> undionly.kpxe -> pxelinux.0 -> chain.c32 to boot hd0
would cause control to return to iPXE instead of booting from the hard
disk. In some cases, this would result in a harmless but confusing
"No more network devices" message; in other cases stranger things
would happen, such as being returned to the iPXE shell prompt.
The fundamental problem is that when pxelinux detects
PXENV_FILE_EXIT_HOOK, it may attempt to specify an exit hook and then
exit back to iPXE, assuming that iPXE will in turn exit cleanly via
the specified exit hook. This is not a valid assumption in the
general case, since the action of exiting back to iPXE does not
directly cause iPXE to exit itself. (In the specific case of
ipxelinux.0, this will work since the embedded script exits as soon as
pxelinux.0 exits.)
Fix the unexpected behaviour in the non-ipxelinux.0 cases by including
support for PXENV_FILE_EXIT_HOOK only when using a new .kkkpxe format.
The ipxelinux.0 build process should therefore now use undionly.kkkpxe
instead of undionly.kkpxe.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pxe] Check for a valid PXE network device when applicable
Very nasty things can happen if a NULL network device is used. Check
that pxe_netdev is non-NULL at the applicable entry points, so that
this type of problem gets reported to the caller rather than being
allowed to crash the system.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
On at least one PXE stack (Realtek r8169), PXENV_UNDI_INITIALIZE has
been observed to fail intermittently due to a media test failure (PXE
error 0x00000061). Retrying the call to PXENV_UNDI_INITIALIZE
succeeds, and the NIC is then usable.
It is worth noting that this particular Realtek PXE stack is already
known to be unreliable: for example, it repeatably fails its own
boot-time media test after every warm reboot.
Fix by attempting PXENV_UNDI_INITIALIZE multiple times, with a short
delay between each attempt to allow the link to settle.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown