Michael Brown 37edfea72b [efi] Generalise block device boot to support arbitrary EFI handles
SAN devices created by iPXE are visible to the firmware, and may be
accessed using the firmware's standard block I/O device interface
(e.g. INT 13 for BIOS, or EFI_BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL for UEFI).  The iPXE
code to perform a SAN boot acts as a client of this standard block I/O
device interface, even when the underlying block I/O is being
performed by iPXE itself.

We rely on this separation to allow the "sanboot" command to be used
to boot from a local disk: since the code to perform a SAN boot does
not need direct access to an underlying iPXE SAN device, it may be
used to boot from any device providing the firmware's standard block
I/O device interface.

Clean up the EFI SAN boot code to require only a drive number and an
EFI_BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL handle, in preparation for adding support for
booting from a local disk under UEFI.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2024-03-04 15:25:25 +00:00
2015-02-26 17:59:53 +00:00
2010-05-28 00:03:47 +01:00

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