Provide a debug function check_bios_interrupts() to look for changes
to the interrupt vector table. This can be useful when investigating
the behaviour (including crashes) of external PXE NBPs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The GuestRPC mechanism (used for VMWARE_SETTINGS and CONSOLE_VMWARE)
does not use any real-mode code and so can be exposed in both 64-bit
and 32-bit builds.
Reported-by: Matthew Helton <mwhelton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The name "vesafb" is intrinsically specific to a BIOS environment.
Generalise the build configuration option CONSOLE_VESAFB to
CONSOLE_FRAMEBUFFER, in preparation for adding EFI framebuffer
support.
Existing configurations using CONSOLE_VESAFB will continue to work.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Use INT 1a,564e to notify the BIOS of each network device that we
detect. This provides an opportunity for the BIOS to implement
platform policy such as changing the MAC address by issuing a call to
PXENV_UNDI_SET_STATION_ADDRESS.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Invoke INT 1a,564e whenever a PXE stack is activated, passing the
address of the PXENV+ structure in %es:%bx. This is designed to allow
a BIOS to be notified when a PXE stack has been installed, providing
an opportunity for start-of-day commands such as setting the MAC
address according to a policy chosen by the BIOS.
PXE defines INT 1a,5650 as a means of locating the PXENV+ structure:
this call returns %ax=0x564e and the address of the PXENV+ structure
in %es:%bx. We choose INT 1a,564e as a fairly natural notification
call, using the parameters as would be returned by INT 1a,5650.
The full calling convention (documented as per section 3.1 of the PXE
specification) is:
INT 1a,564e - PXE installation notification
Enter:
%ax = 0x564e
%es = 16-bit segment address of the PXENV+ structure
%bx = 16-bit offset of the PXENV+ structure
Exit:
%edx may be trashed (as is the case for INT 1a,5650)
All other register contents must be preserved
CF is cleared
IF is preserved
All other flags are undefined
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Merge the functionality of parse_next_server_and_filename() and
tftp_uri() into a single pxe_uri(), which takes a server address
(IPv4/IPv6/none) and a filename, and produces a URI using the rule:
- if the filename is a hierarchical absolute URI (i.e. includes a
scheme such as "http://" or "tftp://") then use that URI and ignore
the server address,
- otherwise, if the server address is recognised (according to
sa_family) then construct a TFTP URI based on the server address,
port, and filename
- otherwise fail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit edf74df ("[pxe] Always reconstruct packet for
PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO") fixed the problems caused by returning stale
DHCP packets (e.g. from an earlier boot attempt using a different
network device), but broke interoperability with NBPs such as WDS
which may overwrite our cached (fake) DHCP packets and expect the
modified packets to be returned by a subsequent call to
PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO.
Fix by constructing the fake DHCP packets immediately before
transferring control to a PXE NBP. Calls to PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO
will now never modify the cached packets.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When the ability for iPXE to handle multiple serial ports was added,
the choice was made that the singular serial port referred to by
COMBOOT calls should mean the port used for the serial console. This
unintentionally caused IMAGE_COMBOOT to also enable CONSOLE_SERIAL.
Fix by providing a weak-symbol version of the serial console which
will be used if serial console support was not explicitly enabled.
Reported-by: Torgeir Wulfsberg <Torgeir.Wulfsberg@kongsberg.com>
Reported-by: Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Avoid accidentally returning stale packets (e.g. for a previously
attempted network device) by always constructing a fresh DHCP packet.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some HP BIOSes (observed with an HP ProLiant m710p Server Cartridge)
have a bug in the implementation of INT 1a,b101: they blithely assume
that real-mode code is able to read from anywhere in the 32-bit memory
space.
This problem affects the call to INT 1a,b101 made from within
pcibios_num_bus() (which uses REAL_CODE() and hence executes in
genuine real mode) but does not affect the call made from within
romprefix.S (since with a PMM BIOS, that call executes in flat real
mode anyway).
Work around the problem by explicitly calling flatten_real_mode()
before invoking INT 1a,b101. This is a rarely-used code path, and so
the extra overhead of emulating instructions in some VM configurations
(see commit 6d4deee ("[librm] Use genuine real mode to accelerate
operation in virtual machines") for more details) is negligible.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Debugged-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Debugged-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Several popular public cloud providers do not provide any sensible
mechanism for obtaining debug output from an OS which is failing to
boot. For example, Amazon EC2 provides the "Get System Log" facility,
which occasionally deigns to report a random subset of the characters
emitted via the VM's serial port, but usually returns only a blank
screen. (Amazingly, this is still superior to the debugging
facilities provided by Azure.)
Work around these shortcomings by adding a console type which sends
output to a magically detected raw disk partition, and including such
a partition within any iPXE .usb-format image.
To use this facility:
- build an iPXE .usb image with CONSOLE_INT13 enabled
- boot the cloud VM from this image
- after the boot fails, attach the VM's boot disk to a second VM
- from this second VM, use "less -f -R /dev/sdb3" (or similar) to
view the iPXE output.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
At some point in the past few years, binutils became more aggressive
at removing unused symbols. To function as a symbol requirement, a
relocation record must now be in a section marked with @progbits and
must not be in a section which gets discarded during the link (either
via --gc-sections or via /DISCARD/).
Update REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to generate relocation records meeting these
criteria. To minimise the impact upon the final binary size, we use
existing symbols (specified via the REQUIRING_SYMBOL() macro) as the
relocation targets where possible. We use R_386_NONE or R_X86_64_NONE
relocation types to prevent any actual unwanted relocation taking
place. Where no suitable symbol exists for REQUIRING_SYMBOL() (such
as in config.c), the macro PROVIDE_REQUIRING_SYMBOL() can be used to
generate a one-byte-long symbol to act as the relocation target.
If there are versions of binutils for which this approach fails, then
the fallback will probably involve killing off REQUEST_SYMBOL(),
redefining REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to use the current definition of
REQUEST_SYMBOL(), and postprocessing the linked ELF file with
something along the lines of "nm -u | wc -l" to check that there are
no undefined symbols remaining.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
These files cannot be automatically relicensed by util/relicense.pl
since they either contain unusual but trivial contributions (such as
the addition of __nonnull function attributes), or contain lines
dating back to the initial git revision (and so require manual
knowledge of the code's origin).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some devices return multiple packets in a single poll. Handle such
devices gracefully by enqueueing received PXE UDP packets (along with
a pseudo-header to hold the IPv4 addresses and port numbers) and
dequeueing them on subsequent calls to PXENV_UDP_READ.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Fetching the TFTP file size is currently implemented via a custom
"tftpsize://" protocol hack. Generalise this approach to instead
close the TFTP connection whenever the parent data-transfer interface
is closed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Interrupt processing adds noise to profiling results. Allow
interrupts (from within protected mode) to be profiled separately,
with time spent within the interrupt handler being excluded from any
other profiling currently in progress.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Now that we can handle interrupts while in protected mode, there is no
need to switch to real mode just to halt the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The currticks() function is called at least once per TCP packet, and
so is performance-critical. Switching to real mode just to allow the
timer interrupt to fire is expensive when running inside a virtual
machine, and imposes a significant performance cost.
Fix by enabling interrupts without switching to real mode. This
results in an approximately 100% increase in download speed when
running under KVM.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We now have the ability to handle interrupts while in protected mode,
and so no longer need to set up a dedicated interrupt descriptor table
while running COM32 executables.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE will detect timeout failures in several situations: network
link-up, DHCP, TCP connection attempts, unacknowledged TCP data, etc.
This does not cover all possible circumstances. For example, if a
connection to a web server is successfully established and the web
server acknowledges the HTTP request but never sends any data in
response, then no timeout will be triggered. There is no timeout
defined within the HTTP specifications, and the underlying TCP
connection will not generate a timeout since it has no way to know
that the HTTP layer is expecting to receive data from the server.
Add a "--timeout" parameter to "imgfetch", "chain", etc. If no
progress is made (i.e. no data is downloaded) within the timeout
period, then the download will be aborted.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Rename the "--bpp" option to "--depth", to free up the single-letter
option "-b" for "--bottom" in preparation for adding margin support.
This does not break backwards compatibility with documented features,
since the "console" command has not yet been documented.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow for an arbitrary margin to be specified in the console
configuration. If the actual screen size does not match the requested
screen size, then update any margins specified so that they remain in
the same place relative to the requested screen size. If margins are
unspecified (i.e. zero), then leave them as zero.
The underlying assumption here is that any specified margins are
likely to describe an area within a background picture, and so should
remain in the same place relative to that background picture.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Use the magic colour facility to cause the user interface background
to become transparent when we have a background picture.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The vgabios used by bochs and qemu (and other virtualisation products)
has a bug in its implementation of INT 10,4f00 which causes the high
16 bits of %ebx and %edx to become corrupted.
The vgabios code uses a "pushaw"/"popaw" pair to preserve the low 16
bits of all non-segment registers. The vgabios code is compiled using
bcc, which generates 8086-compatible code and so never touches the
high 16 bits of the 32-bit registers. However, the function
vbe_biosfn_return_controller_information() includes the line:
size_64k = (Bit16u)((Bit32u)cur_info->info.XResolution *
cur_info->info.XResolution *
cur_info->info.BitsPerPixel) >> 19;
which generates an implicit call to the "lmulul" function. This
function is implemented in vbe.c as:
; helper function for memory size calculation
lmulul:
and eax, #0x0000FFFF
shl ebx, #16
or eax, ebx
SEG SS
mul eax, dword ptr [di]
mov ebx, eax
shr ebx, #16
ret
which modifies %eax, %ebx, and %edx (as a result of the "mul"
instruction, which places its result into %edx:%eax).
Work around this problem by marking %ebx and %edx as being clobbered
by the call to INT 10,4f00. (%eax is already used as an output
register, so does not need to be on the clobber list.)
Reported-by: Oliver Rath <rath@mglug.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The fetch_setting() family of functions may currently modify the
definition of the specified setting (e.g. to add missing type
information). Clean up this interface by requiring callers to provide
an explicit buffer to contain the completed definition of the fetched
setting, if required.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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>
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>
