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>
Replace the existing partially-implemented IPv6 stack with a fresh
implementation.
This implementation is not yet complete. The IPv6 transmit and
receive datapaths are functional (including fragment reassembly and
parsing of arbitrary extension headers). NDP neighbour solicitations
and advertisements are supported. ICMPv6 echo is supported.
At present, only link-local addresses may be used, and there is no way
to specify an IPv6 address as part of a URI (either directly or via
a DNS lookup).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Expose memory map via settings mechanism
Allow memory map entries to be read using the syntax
${memmap/<region>.<properties>.<scale>}
where <region> is the index of the memory region, <properties> is a
bitmask where bit 0 represents the start address and bit 1 represents
the length (allowing the end address to be encoded by having both bits
0 and 1 set), and <scale> is the number of bits by which to shift the
result.
This allows for several values of interest to be encoded. For
example:
${memmap/<region>.1.0:hexraw} # 64-bit start address of <region>
${memmap/<region>.2.0:hexraw} # 64-bit length of <region>, in bytes
${memmap/<region>.3.0:hexraw} # 64-bit end address of <region>
${memmap/<region>.2.10:int32} # Length of <region>, in kB
${memmap/<region>.2.20:int32} # Length of <region>, in MB
The numeric encoding is slightly more sophisticated than described
here, allowing a single encoding to cover multiple regions. (See the
source code for details.) The primary use case for this feature is to
provide the total system memory size (in MB) via the "memsize"
predefined setting.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Expose CPUID instruction via settings mechanism
Allow CPUID values to be read using the syntax
${cpuid/<register>.<function>}
For example, ${cpuid/2.0x80000001} will give the value of %ecx after
calling CPUID with %eax=0x80000001. Values for <register> are encoded
as %eax=0, %ebx=1, %ecx=2, %edx=3.
The numeric encoding is more sophisticated than described above,
allowing for settings such as the CPU model (obtained by calling CPUID
with %eax=0x80000002-0x80000004 inclusive and concatenating the values
returned in %eax:%ebx:%ecx:%edx). See the source code for details.
The "cpuvendor" and "cpumodel" settings provide easy access to these
more complex CPUID settings.
This functionality is intended to complement the "cpuid" command,
which allows for testing individual CPUID feature bits.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Expose PCI configuration space via settings mechanism
Allow values to be read from PCI configuration space using the syntax
${pci/<busdevfn>.<offset>.<length>}
where <busdevfn> is the bus:dev.fn address of the PCI device
(expressed as a single integer, as returned by ${net0/busloc}),
<offset> is the offset within PCI configuration space, and <length> is
the length within PCI configuration space.
Values are returned in reverse byte order, since PCI configuration
space is little-endian by definition.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Move VMWARE_SETTINGS build configuration option from config/sideband.h
to a new config/settings.h.
Existing instances of config/local/sideband.h will not be affected,
since config.c still #includes config/sideband.h.
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>
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>
[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>
DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTM is now useless as tftm support has been merged
into tftp.c. DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTP should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[block] Replace gPXE block-device API with an iPXE asynchronous interface
The block device interface used in gPXE predates the invention of even
the old gPXE data-transfer interface, let alone the current iPXE
generic asynchronous interface mechanism. Bring this old code up to
date, with the following benefits:
o Block device commands can be cancelled by the requestor. The INT 13
layer uses this to provide a global timeout on all INT 13 calls,
with the result that an unexpected passive failure mode (such as
an iSCSI target ACKing the request but never sending a response)
will lead to a timeout that gets reported back to the INT 13 user,
rather than simply freezing the system.
o INT 13,00 (reset drive) is now able to reset the underlying block
device. INT 13 users, such as DOS, that use INT 13,00 as a method
for error recovery now have a chance of recovering.
o All block device commands are tagged, with a numerical tag that
will show up in debugging output and in packet captures; this will
allow easier interpretation of bug reports that include both
sources of information.
o The extremely ugly hacks used to generate the boot firmware tables
have been eradicated and replaced with a generic acpi_describe()
method (exploiting the ability of iPXE interfaces to pass through
methods to an underlying interface). The ACPI tables are now
built in a shared data block within .bss16, rather than each
requiring dedicated space in .data16.
o The architecture-independent concept of a SAN device has been
exposed to the iPXE core through the sanboot API, which provides
calls to hook, unhook, boot, and describe SAN devices. This
allows for much more flexible usage patterns (such as hooking an
empty SAN device and then running an OS installer via TFTP).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add the tap driver that can be used like:
$ ./ipxe.linux --net tap,if=tap0,mac=00:0c:29:c5:39:a1
The if setting is mandatory.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add linux console using stdin/out. Configure the attached terminal for
readline use.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Jaroszyński <p.jaroszynski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The NMB protocol code came from legacy Etherboot and was never updated
to work as a gPXE protocol. There has been no demand for this protocol,
so this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The NFS protocol code came from legacy Etherboot and was never updated
to work as a gPXE protocol. There has been no demand for this protocol,
so this patch removes it.
I have an unfinished NFSv3 over TCP implementation for gPXE that can be
used as the base for new work, should we want to resurrect this
protocol.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
For extremely tight space requirements and specific applications, it is
sometimes desirable to create gPXE images that cannot provide the PXE API
functionality to client programs. Add a configuration header option,
PXE_STACK, that can be removed to remove this stack. Also add PXE_MENU
to control the PXE boot menu, which most uses of gPXE do not need.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
[iwmgmt] Add wireless management commands and text for common errors
Add commands `iwstat' (to list 802.11-specific status information for
802.11 devices) and `iwlist' (to scan for available networks and print
a list along with security information).
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
[linker] Add mechanism for subsystem-dependent configuration options
It is often the case that some module of gPXE is only relevant if the
subsystem it depends on is already being included. For instance,
commands to manage wireless interfaces are quite useless if no
compiled-in driver has pulled in the wireless networking stack. There
may be a user-modifiable configuration options for these dependent
modules, but even if enabled, they should not be included when they
would be useless.
Solve this by allowing the creation of config_subsystem.c, for
configuration directives like those in the global config.c that should
only be considered when subsystem.c is included in the final gPXE
build.
For consistency, move core/config.c to the config/ directory, where
the other config_subsystem.c files will eventually reside.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
SRP is the SCSI RDMA Protocol. It allows for a method of SAN booting
whereby the target is responsible for reading and writing data using
Remote DMA directly to the initiator's memory. The software initiator
merely sends and receives SCSI commands; it never has to touch the
actual data.
These commands can be used to activate or deactivate the PXE API (on a
specifiable network interface).
This is currently of limited use, since most image formats will call
shutdown() before booting the image, meaning that the underlying net
device gets shut down during remove_devices() anyway.
Michael Brown