Commit Graph

9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Brown
8904cd55f1 [comboot] Allow for tail recursion of COMBOOT images
Multi-level menus via COMBOOT rely on the COMBOOT program being able
to exit and invoke a new COMBOOT program (the next menu).  This works,
but rapidly (within about five iterations) runs out of space in gPXE's
internal stack, since each new image is executed in a new function
context.

Fix by allowing tail recursion between images; an image can now
specify a replacement image for itself, and image_exec() will perform
the necessary tail recursion.
2009-02-17 00:47:35 +00:00
Michael Brown
29480dd715 [efi] Use EFI-native mechanism for accessing SMBIOS table
EFI provides a copy of the SMBIOS table accessible via the EFI system
table, which we should use instead of manually scanning through the
F000:0000 segment.
2008-12-04 23:19:12 +00:00
Michael Brown
831e4cfc27 [umalloc] Formalise the user memory allocation API 2008-10-13 05:33:14 +01:00
Daniel Verkamp
e8b22f203f [comboot] Add COMBOOT and COM32 support 2008-08-28 23:52:19 +01:00
Michael Brown
77a5cc6b13 [ELF] Add ability to boot ELF images generated by wraplinux and mkelfImage
Delete ELF as a generic image type.  The method for invoking an
ELF-based image (as well as any tables that must be set up to allow it
to boot) will always depend on the specific architecture.  core/elf.c
now only provides the elf_load() function, to avoid duplicating
functionality between ELF-based image types.

Add arch/i386/image/elfboot.c, to handle the generic case of 32-bit
x86 ELF images.  We don't currently set up any multiboot tables, ELF
notes, etc.  This seems to be sufficient for loading kernels generated
using both wraplinux and coreboot's mkelfImage.

Note that while Etherboot 5.4 allowed ELF images to return, we don't.
There is no callback mechanism for the loaded image to shut down gPXE,
which means that we have to shut down before invoking the image.  This
means that we lose device state, protection against being trampled on,
etc.  It is not safe to continue afterwards.
2008-06-09 13:50:00 +01:00
Michael Brown
feade5da6e [Settings] Expose SMBIOS via settings API
In particular, expose the system UUID as a setting ("smbios/uuid").
2008-03-28 15:35:06 +00:00
Alexey Zaytsev
1935439f86 fix the rdtsc namimg 2008-03-02 05:19:29 +03:00
Alexey Zaytsev
379c37bafb Cleanups
Replace a printf with a DBG in timer_rtdsc.c
Replace a printf in timer.c with assert
Return proper error codes from timer drivers

Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
2008-03-02 04:36:50 +03:00
Michael Brown
9aa61ad5a2 Add per-file error identifiers 2007-07-24 17:11:31 +01:00