[vesafb] Select an optimal mode, rather than the first acceptable mode
There is no requirement for VBE modes to be listed in increasing order
of resolution. With the present logic, this can cause e.g. a 1024x768
mode to be selected if the user asks for 640x480, if the 1024x768 mode
is earlier in the mode list.
Define a scoring system for modes as
score = ( width * height - bpp )
and choose the mode with the lowest score among all acceptable modes.
This should prefer to choose the mode closest to the requested
resolution, with a slight preference for higher colour depths.
Reported-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[vesafb] Skip modes for which we cannot get mode information
The VirtualBox BIOS fails to retrieve mode information (with status
0x0100) for some modes within the mode list. Skip any such modes,
rather than treating this as a fatal error.
Reported-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The VESA frame buffer console uses the VESA BIOS extensions (VBE) to
enumerate video modes, selects an appropriate mode, and then hands off
to the generic frame buffer code.
The font is extracted from the VGA BIOS, avoiding the need to provide
an external font file.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[main] Defer "initialising devices" message until initialising devices
Allow the "initialising devices" message to show up on consoles which
require initialisation, by deferring it until after initialise() has
completed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipv6] Separate the concepts of prefix and address creation
Allow for IPv6 routing table entries to be created for an on-link
prefix where a local address has not yet been assigned to the network
device.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Syslinux 6.x places its files into a bios subdirectory, and requires
that a ldlinux.c32 module be included within the ISO image. Add the
relevant search paths for isolinux.bin, and include the file
ldlinux.c32 within the ISO image if it exists.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[dhcpv6] Add basic support for stateful and stateless DHCPv6
Add support for the stateful and stateless variants of the DHCPv6
protocol. The resulting settings block is registered as
"net<x>.dhcpv6", and DHCPv6 options can be obtained using
e.g. "${net0.dhcpv6/23:ipv6}" to obtain the IPv6 DNS server address.
IPv6 addresses obtained via stateful DHCPv6 are not yet applied to the
network device.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pxe] Ensure cached DHCPACK is retrieved prior to network device creation
The retrieval of the cached DHCPACK and the creation of network
devices are both currently scheduled as STARTUP_NORMAL. It is
therefore possible that the cached DHCPACK will not be retrieved in
time for cachedhcp_probe() to apply it to the relevant network device.
Fix by retrieving the cached DHCPACK at initialisation time rather
than at startup time.
As an optimisation, an unclaimed cached DHCPACK can be freed
immediately after the last network device has been created, rather
than waiting until shutdown.
Reported-by: Espen Braastad <espen.braastad@redpill-linpro.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Include IPv6 within the generic network device configurator
mechanism. The IPv6 configurator will send a router solicitation and
wait for a router advertisement to be received. (As per RFC4861
section 6.3.7, we do this even if advertisements have been received
prior to sending the router solicitation.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Add generic concept of a network device configurator
iPXE supports multiple mechanisms for network device configuration:
DHCPv4 for IPv4, FIP for FCoE, and SLAAC for IPv6. At present, DHCPv4
requires an explicit action (e.g. a "dhcp" command), FIP is initiated
implicitly upon opening a network device, and SLAAC takes place
whenever a RA happens to be received.
Add a generic concept of a network device configurator, which provides
a common interface to triggering configuration and to reporting the
result of the configuration process.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit 5e1fa5c ("[parseopt] Add parse_timeout()") introduced a
regression causing the shell banner timeout value (calculated in
milliseconds) to be treated as a timer tick count, resulting in a
timeout of approximately two minutes rather than the intended two
seconds.
Reported-by: Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[monojob] Report ongoing job status as overall return status on timeout
If a job times out then use the most recent ongoing error status
reported via job_progress() (if available) as the overall return
status.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[job] Allow job_progress() to return an ongoing job status code, if known
Some background jobs have a meaningful ongoing status code (e.g. the
current link status for a job waiting for a network link to come up).
Allow this to be exposed via the job_progress() method.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[interface] Default to calling intf_restart() in response to intf_close()
If an object interface does not provide an intf_close() method, then
default to calling intf_restart(). This allows static objects to
safely ignore intf_close(), without needing to add code solely to
ensure that the interface gets unplugged.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Most network upper-layer drivers do not implement all three methods
(probe, notify, and remove). Save code by making all methods
optional.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Parsing a timeout value (specified in milliseconds) into an internal
timeout value measured in timer ticks is a common operation. Provide
a parse_timeout() value to carry out this conversion automatically.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pxe] Always retrieve cached DHCPACK and apply to relevant network device
When chainloading, always retrieve the cached DHCPACK packet from the
underlying PXE stack, and apply it as the original contents of the
"net<X>.dhcp" settings block. This allows cached DHCP settings to be
used for any chainloaded iPXE binary (not just undionly.kkpxe).
This change eliminates the undocumented "use-cached" setting. Issuing
the "dhcp" command will now always result in a fresh DHCP request.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[ipv6] Automatically choose source for link-local and multicast destinations
When transmitting to a link-local or multicast destination address,
use the network device's link-local address as the source address if
no explicit source address has been specified.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown