A reasonably large (512MB) file transferred via HTTP over Gigabit
Ethernet should complete in around 4.6 seconds. Increase the
resolution of the "time" command to tenths of a second, to allow such
transfers to be meaningfully measured.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add "sync" command (loosely based on the Unix "sync"), which will wait
for any pending operations to complete.
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>
[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>
[image] Eliminate the register_and_xxx_image() functions
All users of imgdownload() require registration of the image, so make
registration an integral part of imgdownload() itself and simplify the
"action" parameter to be one of image_select(), image_exec() et al.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[cmdline] Make "sleep" command available by default
The "sleep" command is generally useful to have. For example:
:dhcp_retry
dhcp && goto dhcp_done
sleep 5
goto dhcp_retry
:dhcp_done
Make the "sleep" command available by default, leaving TIME_CMD
controlling only the (fairly specialist) "time" command.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Expose the multiple-SAN-drive capability of the iPXE core via the iPXE
command line by adding commands to hook and unhook additional drives.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Standardise on using init_editstring() to initialise an embedded
editable string, to match the coding style used by other embedded
objects.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
There is no need to explicitly call basename() to construct an image
name in imgfetch_core_exec(), since image_set_uri() will do so
automatically anyway (and will do so without getting confused by URIs
with query strings).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The "read" command allows a script to prompt a user to enter a
setting. For example:
echo -n Static IP address:
read net0/ip
Total cost: 17 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE documentation tends to refer to "settings" rather than "options",
since settings can be more general than DHCP options.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Add hierarchy navigation in "config" user interface
Allow the user to browse through the settings block hierarchy.
Originally-implemented-by: Glenn Brown <glenn@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Display only applicable settings in "config" user interface
Display only settings relevant to the current scope. For example,
"config net0" no longer displays SMBIOS settings, and "config smbios"
displays only SMBIOS settings.
Originally-implemented-by: Glenn Brown <glenn@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Display canonical setting name in output of "show" command
Enable the "show" command to display the full, canonicalised name of
the fetched setting. For example:
iPXE> show mac
net0/mac:hex = 52:54:00:12:34:56
iPXE> dhcp && show ip
DHCP (net0 52:54:00:12:34:56)... ok
net0.dhcp/ip:ipv4 = 10.0.0.168
iPXE> show net0/6
net0.dhcp/dns:ipv4 = 10.0.0.6
Inspired-by: Glenn Brown <glenn@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Try to avoid problems caused by keycode 86
The "us" keyboard layout contains a mapping for keycode 86 (which
seems not to correspond to any physical key on many US keyboards) to
the ASCII character '<'. This mapping causes conflicts with the
mapping for keycode 51, which also maps (with shift) to '<'.
Change the keyboard mapping generator to choose the lowest keycode for
each ASCII character as indicating the relevant mapping to use, on the
basis that a lower keycode roughly indicates a "more normal" key. On
a German keyboard, which has keys for both keycode 51 and keycode 86
present, this causes '<' to be remapped to ';', which is a closer
match to typical user expectations.
Reported-by: Sven Dreyer <sven@dreyer-net.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Inspired by LILO's keytab-lilo.pl, genkeymap.pl uses "loadkeys -b" to
obtain a Linux keyboard map, and generates a file keymap_xx.c in
hci/keymap.
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>
[parseopt] Refer to online documentation for command help
The online documentation (e.g. http://ipxe.org/cmd/ifopen), though not
yet complete, is far more comprehensive than could be provided within
the iPXE binary. Save around 200 bytes (compressed) by removing the
command descriptions from the interactive help, and instead referring
users directly to the web page describing the relevant command.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[autoboot] Connect SAN disk during a filename boot, if applicable
For performing installations direct to a SAN target, it can be very
useful to hook a SAN disk and then proceed to perform a filename boot.
For example, the user may wish to hook the (empty) SAN installation
disk and then boot into the OS installer via TFTP. This provides an
alternative mechanism to using "keep-san" and relying on the BIOS to
fall through to boot from the installation media, which is unreliable
on many BIOSes.
When a root-path is specified in addition to a boot filename, attempt
to hook the root-path as a SAN disk before booting from the specified
filename. Since the root-path may be used for non-SAN purposes
(e.g. an NFS root mount point), ignore the root-path if it contains a
URI scheme that we do not support.
Originally-implemented-by: Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[cmdline] Match user expectations for &&, ||, goto, and exit
The && and || operators should be left-associative, since that is how
they are treated in most other languages (including C and Unix
shell). For example, in the command:
dhcp net0 && goto dhcp_ok || echo No DHCP on net0
if the "dhcp net0" fails then the "echo" should be executed.
After an "exit" or a successful "goto", further commands on the same
line should never be executed. For example:
goto somewhere && echo This should never be printed
exit 0 && echo This should never be printed
exit 1 && echo This should never be printed
An "exit" should cause the current shell or script to terminate and
return the specified exit status to its caller. For example:
chain test.ipxe && echo Success || echo Failure
[in test.ipxe]
#!ipxe
exit 0
should echo "Success".
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The "shell" command allows a script to enter an interactive shell,
which is potentially useful for troubleshooting.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Allow "set" command to take an empty value
Allow "set <variable>" to be used to set the variable to an empty
value, if permitted by the setting type. Note that some settings
backends do not differentiate between an empty value and a
non-existent value, so this may or may not be equivalent to "clear
<variable>".
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[autoboot] Merge "netboot" command into "autoboot"
Allow "autoboot" to accept an optional list of network devices, and
remove the "netboot" command. This saves around 130 bytes.
The "netboot" command has existed for approximately 48 hours, so its
removal should not cause backwards compatibility issues for anyone.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown