Some PXE stacks (notably old Etherboot/gPXE stacks) will claim to use
the timer interrupt, rather than reporting that interrupts are not
supported. Since using the timer interrupt is equivalent to polling
anyway, we may as well genuinely poll these stacks.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some PXE stacks advertise that interrupts are not supported, despite
requiring the use of interrupts. Attempt to cope with such cards
without breaking others by always hooking the interrupt, and using the
"interrupts supported" flag only to decide whether or not to wait for
an interrupt before calling PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_PROCESS.
The possible combinations are therefore:
1. Card generates interrupts and claims to support interrupts
iPXE will call PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_PROCESS only after an interrupt
has been observed. (This is required to avoid lockups in some PXE
stacks, which spuriously sulk if called before an interrupt has
been generated.)
Such a card should work correctly.
2. Card does not generate interrupts and does not claim to support
interrupts
iPXE will call PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_PROCESS indiscriminately, matching
the observed behaviour of at least one other PXE NBP (winBoot/i).
Such a card should work correctly.
3. Card generates interrupts but claims not to support interrupts
iPXE will call PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_PROCESS indiscriminately. An
interrupt will still result in a call to PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_START.
Such a card may work correctly.
4. Card does not generate interrupts but claims to support interrupts
Such a card will not work at all.
Reported-by: Jerry Cheng <jaspers.cheng@msa.hinet.net>
Tested-by: Jerry Cheng <jaspers.cheng@msa.hinet.net>
Reported-by: Mauricio Silveira <mauricio@livreti.com.br>
Tested-by: Mauricio Silveira <mauricio@livreti.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Merge the "bus" and "devfn" fields into a single "busdevfn" field, to
match the format used by the majority of external code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Remove the concept of shutdown exit flags, and replace it with a
counter used to keep track of exposed interfaces that require devices
to remain active.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some network cards do not generate interrupts when operated via the
UNDI API. Allow for this by waiting for the ISR to be triggered only
if the PXE stack advertises that it supports interrupts. When the PXE
stack does not advertise interrupt support, we skip the call to
PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_START and just poll the device using
PXENV_UNDI_ISR_IN_PROCESS. This matches the observed behaviour of at
least one other PXE NBP (emBoot's winBoot/i), so there is a reasonable
chance of this working.
Originally-implemented-by: Muralidhar Appalla <Muralidhar.Appalla@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Use the shared code in libflat to perform the A20 transitions
automatically on each transition from real to protected mode. This
allows us to remove all explicit calls to gateA20_set().
The old warnings about avoiding automatically enabling A20 are
essentially redundant; they date back to the time when we would always
start hammering the keyboard controller without first checking to see
if gate A20 was already enabled (which it almost always is).
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>
Loading multiple UNDI instances would be useful in systems that have
several network cards with vendor PXE ROMs. However, we cannot rely on
UNDI ROMs working correctly with multiple instances loaded
simultaneously.
The gPXE UNDI driver supports the following multi-NIC configurations:
1. Chainloading undionly.kpxe on a specific NIC.
2. Loading the UNDI driver for the first probed device and ignoring all
other UNDI devices in the system.
This patch refuses to probe additional UNDI devices so there can never
be multiple instances of UNDI loaded.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
Calling the parent PXE stack (the stack that loaded us, for
undionly.kkpxe) can be useful for more than UNDI calls; for instance,
it lets us get cached DHCP packets to avoid re-DHCP when working with
embedded images.
Signed-off-by: Marty Connor <mdc@etherboot.org>
The hardware address is an intrinsic property of the hardware, while
the link-layer address can be changed at runtime. This separation is
exposed via APIs such as PXE and EFI, but is currently elided by gPXE.
Expose the hardware and link-layer addresses as separate properties
within a net device. Drivers should now fill in hw_addr, which will
be used to initialise ll_addr at the time of calling
register_netdev().
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>.
There are many functions that take ownership of the I/O buffer they
are passed as a parameter. The caller should not retain a pointer to
the I/O buffer. Use iob_disown() to automatically nullify the
caller's pointer, e.g.:
xfer_deliver_iob ( xfer, iob_disown ( iobuf ) );
This will ensure that iobuf is set to NULL for any code after the call
to xfer_deliver_iob().
iob_disown() is currently used only in places where it simplifies the
code, by avoiding an extra line explicitly setting the I/O buffer
pointer to NULL. It should ideally be used with each call to any
function that takes ownership of an I/O buffer. (The SSA
optimisations will ensure that use of iob_disown() gets optimised away
in cases where the caller makes no further use of the I/O buffer
pointer anyway.)
If gcc ever introduces an __attribute__((free)), indicating that use
of a function argument after a function call should generate a
warning, then we should use this to identify all applicable function
call sites, and add iob_disown() as necessary.
This brings us in to line with Linux definitions, and also simplifies
adding x86_64 support since both platforms have 2-byte shorts, 4-byte
ints and 8-byte long longs.
The userptr_t is now the fundamental type that gets used for conversions.
For example, virt_to_phys() is implemented in terms of virt_to_user() and
user_to_phys().
Apparently some BIOSes will place option ROMs on 512-byte boundaries.
While this is against specification, it doesn't actually hurt
anything, so we may as well increase our scan granularity to 512
bytes.
Contributed by Luca <lucarx76@gmail.com>
__from_data16 and __from_text16 now take a pointer to a
.data16/.text16 variable, and return the real-mode offset within the
appropriate segment. This matches the use case for every occurrence
of these macros, and prevents potential future bugs such as that fixed
in commit d51d80f. (The bug arose essentially because "&pointer" is
still syntactically valid.)
We never set up specific multicast filters; native drivers will ask
the card to receive all multicast packets. The only way to achieve
this via the UNDI API is to enable promiscuous mode.
Add ability for network devices to flag link up/down state to the
networking core.
Autobooting code will now wait for link-up before attempting DHCP.
IPoIB reflects the Infiniband link state as the network device link state
(which is not strictly correct; we also need a succesful IPoIB IPv4
broadcast group join), but is probably more informative.
Since we don't know what the UNDI code does, it is safest to
save/restore %eflags even though the lower half of %eflags is
automatically saved by the interrupt itself.
As written, if the if the UNDI ISR call clobbers the upper halves of
any of the GPRs (which by convention it is permitted to do, and by
paranoia should be expected to do) then nothing in the interrupt
handler will recover the state.
Additionally, save/restore %fs and %gs out of sheer paranoia - it's a
cheap enough operation, and may prevent problems due to poorly written
UNDI stacks.
the UNDI stack.
Ignore obviously invalid length combinations (as returned by
e.g. VMWare's PXE stack).
Limit to one packet per poll to avoid memory exhaustion.
Always send EOI; do not chain to BIOS's default interrupt handler.
They are just too unpredictable; at least VMware's seems to kill the
machine if you go anywhere near it.
Disable interrupts after return from PXENV_UNDI_ISR, just in case some
dumb PXE stack enables them.
safe dropping of the netdev ref by the driver while other refs still
exist.
Add netdev_irq() method. Net device open()/close() methods should no
longer enable or disable IRQs.
Remove rx_quota; it wasn't used anywhere and added too much complexity
to implementing correct interrupt-masking behaviour in pxe_undi.c.
