The DOS .com prefix was brought over from legacy Etherboot but does not
build. There has been no demand for .com images so this patch removes
the prefix.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The .lkrn prefix allows gPXE to be loaded as a Linux bzImage. The
bImage prefix was carried over from legacy Etherboot and does not build.
This patch removes the .bImage prefix, use .lkrn instead.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
[prefix] Add .xrom prefix for a ROM that loads itself by PCI accesses
The standard option ROM format provides a header indicating the size
of the entire ROM, which the BIOS will reserve space for, load, and
call as necessary. However, this space is strictly limited to 128k for
all ROMs. gPXE ameliorates this somewhat by reserving space for itself
in high memory and relocating the majority of its code there, but on
systems prior to PCI3 enough space must still be present to load the
ROM in the first place. Even on PCI3 systems, the BIOS often limits the
size of ROM it will load to a bit over 64kB.
These space problems can be solved by providing an artificially small
size in the ROM header: just enough to let the prefix code (at the
beginning of the ROM image) be loaded by the BIOS. To the BIOS, the
gPXE ROM will appear to be only a few kilobytes; it can then load
the rest of itself by accessing the ROM directly using the PCI
interface reserved for that task.
There are a few problems with this approach. First, gPXE needs to find
an unmapped region in memory to map the ROM so it can read from it;
this is done using the crude but effective approach of scanning high
memory (over 0xF0000000) for a sufficiently large region of all-ones
(0xFF) reads. (In x86 architecture, all-ones is returned for accesses
to memory regions that no mapped device can satisfy.) This is not
provably valid in all situations, but has worked well in practice.
More importantly, this type of ROM access can only work if the PCI ROM
BAR exists at all. NICs on physical add-in PCI cards generally must
have the BAR in order for the BIOS to be able to load their ROM, but
ISA cards and LAN-on-Motherboard cards will both fail to load gPXE
using this scheme.
Due to these uncertainties, it is recommended that .xrom only be used
when a regular .rom image is infeasible due to crowded option ROM
space. However, when it works it could allow loading gPXE images
as large as a flash chip one could find - 128kB or even higher.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
[prefix] Add .hrom prefix for a ROM that loads high under PCI3 without PMM
gPXE currently takes advantage of the feature of PCI3.0 that allows
option ROMs to relocate the bulk of their code to high memory and so
take up only a small amount of space in the option ROM area. Currently,
the relocation can only take place if the BIOS's implementation of PMM
can be made to return blocks aligned to an even megabyte, because of
the A20 gate. AMI BIOSes, in particular, will not return allocations
that gPXE can use.
Ameliorate the situation somewhat by adding a prefix, .hrom, that works
identically to .rom except in the case that PMM allocation fails. Where
.rom would give up and place itself entirely in option ROM space, .hrom
moves to a block (assumed free) at HIGHMEM_LOADPOINT = 4MB. This allows
for the use of larger gPXE ROMs than would otherwise be possible.
Because there is no way to check that the area at HIGHMEM_LOADPOINT is
really free, other devices using that memory during the boot process
will cause failure for gPXE, the other device, or both. In practice
such conflicts will likely not occur, but this prefix should still be
considered EXPERIMENTAL.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The disk partition prefix code in hdprefix.S reads the gPXE image in
tracks, not individual sectors. This means it will attempt to read
beyond the end of the image if the .hd image type is not padded to 32
KB.
This issue is affects virtualization software which may execute a .hd or
.usb image file directly - effectively running a machine with a tiny
disk containing just the gPXE image. Boot will fail when gPXE tries to
read beyond the end of disk.
We add a syslinux floppy disk type using parts of the genliso script.
This floppy image cat be dd'ed to a physical floppy or used in
instances where a virtual floppy with an mountable DOS filesystem is
useful.
We also modify the genliso script to only generate .liso images
rather than creating images depending on how it is called.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
[build] Reinstate the .pdsk padded-floppy image format
Some utilities that expect a floppy disk image (e.g. iLO?) may test
for a file of the correct size. Reinstate the .pdsk image format in
order to provide this if needed.
[build] Pad .rom, .dsk, and .hd images to 512-byte boundaries
QEMU will silently round down a disk or ROM image file to the nearest
512 bytes. Fix by always padding .rom, .dsk and .hd images to the
nearest 512-byte boundary.
Originally-fixed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
[pxeprefix] Add .kkpxe image type and ability to return via PXE stack
Certain combinations of PXE stack and BIOS result in a broken INT 18
call, which will leave the system displaying a "PRESS ANY KEY TO
REBOOT" message instead of proceeding to the next boot device. On
these systems, returning via the PXE stack is the only way to continue
to the next boot device. Returning via the PXE stack works only if we
haven't already blown away the PXE base code in pxeprefix.S.
In most circumstances, we do want to blow away the PXE base code.
Base memory is a limited resource, and it is desirable to reclaim as
much as possible. When we perform an iSCSI boot, we need to place the
iBFT above the 512kB mark, because otherwise it may not be detected by
the loaded OS; this may not be possible if the PXE base code is still
occupying that memory.
Introduce a new prefix type .kkpxe which will preserve both the PXE
base code and the UNDI driver (as compared to .kpxe, which preserves
the UNDI driver but uninstalls the PXE base code). This prefix type
can be used on systems that are known to experience the specific
problem of INT 18 being broken, or in builds (such as gpxelinux.0) for
which it is particularly important to know that returning to the BIOS
will work.
Written by H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> and Stefan Hajnoczi
<stefanha@gmail.com>, minor structural alterations by Michael Brown
<mcb30@etherboot.org>.