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>
[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>
[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>
Command implementations tend to include a substantial amount of common
boilerplate code revolving around the parsing of command-line options
and arguments. This increases the size cost of each command.
Introduce an option-parsing library that abstracts out the common
operations involved in command implementations. This enables the size
of each individual command to be reduced, and also enhances
consistency between commands.
Total size of the library is 704 bytes, to be amortised across all
command implementations.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown