The name "int13" is intrinsically specific to a BIOS environment.
Generalise the build configuration option CONSOLE_INT13 to
CONSOLE_DISKLOG, in preparation for adding EFI disk log console
support.
Existing configurations using CONSOLE_INT13 will continue to work.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The current usage model for iPXE is that the default configuration is
relatively minimal to reduce code size, with users encouraged to build
from source if necessary to enable additional features. This approach
is somewhat incompatible with the Secure Boot model, which by design
makes it prohibitively difficult for users to use their own compiled
binaries. For published Secure Boot signed binaries to be useful,
they will have to already include all features that the majority of
users will need.
Extend the default configuration for EFI (and other non-BIOS
platforms) to include HTTPS support, framebuffer support, and a
selection of commands and features that are reasonably expected to be
used by large numbers of users.
The default configuration for BIOS platforms is deliberately left
unchanged, since BIOS binaries are typically subject to severe size
constraints.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Move all console configuration from config/defaults/<platform>.h to
the top-level config/console.h, using indented conditional blocks to
clarify which console types are supported and enabled on each
platform.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Mark all files used in a standard build of bin-x86_64-efi/snponly.efi
as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot. These files represent the core
functionality of iPXE that is guaranteed to have been included in
every binary that was previously subject to a security review and
signed by Microsoft. It is therefore legitimate to assume that at
least these files have already been reviewed to the required standard
multiple times.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add the ability to issue Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) calls via
the ECALL instruction, and use the SBI DBCN extension to implement a
debug console.
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>
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>
Allow named configurations to be specified via the CONFIG=... build
parameter. For headers in config/*.h which support named
configurations, the following files will be included when building
with CONFIG=<name>:
- config/defaults/<platform>.h (e.g. config/defaults/pcbios.h)
- config/<header>.h
- config/<name>/<header>.h (only if the directory config/<name> exists)
- config/local/<header>.h (autocreated if necessary)
- config/local/<name>/<header>.h (autocreated if necessary)
This mechanism allows for predefined named configurations to be
checked in to the source tree, as a directory config/<name> containing
all of the required header files.
The mechanism also allows for users to define multiple local
configurations, by creating header files in the directory
config/local/<name>.
Note that the config/*.h files which are used only to configure
internal iPXE APIs (e.g. config/ioapi.h) cannot be modified via a
named configuration. This avoids rebuilding the entire iPXE codebase
whenever switching to a different named configuration.
Inspired-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Tested-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>
Provide an internal syslog() function (unrelated to the syslog
console) which can be used to create log messages with specified
priorities.
The build-time constant LOG_LEVEL can be used to select the minimum
required priority for log messages. Any messages that do not have a
sufficient priority will be ignored (and will be optimised away at
compile-time).
The default LOG_LEVEL is LOG_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Include config/local/$file in config/$file where it makes sense and
create empty local configs during build if not present.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@etherboot.org>
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