openslx-ng/ipxe.git/src/Makefile.housekeeping, branch v0.9.7

[image] Allow for zero embedded images

2009-02-24T05:57:56+00:00

Having a default script containing #!gpxe autoboot can cause problems when entering commands to load and start a kernel manually; the default script image will still be present when the kernel is started and so will be treated as an initrd. It is possible to work around this by typing "imgfree" before any other commands, but this is counter-intuitive. Fix by allowing the embedded image list to be empty (in which case we just call autoboot()), and making this the default. Reported by alkisg@gmail.com.

[build] Allow NO_WERROR=1 to inhibit --fatal-warnings as well as -Werror

2009-02-16T01:06:40+00:00

[image] Allow multiple embedded images

2009-02-16T00:30:36+00:00

This patch extends the embedded image feature to allow multiple embedded images instead of just one. gPXE now always boots the first embedded image on startup instead of doing the hardcoded DHCP boot (aka autoboot). Based heavily upon a patch by Stefan Hajnoczi .

[build] Treat warnings as errors in assembly files

2009-02-15T11:05:00+00:00

Add --fatal-warnings to ASFLAGS; this is the equivalent of -Werror in CFLAGS (which we have used since July 2007).

[efi] Add efirom utility and .efirom image format

2009-01-08T02:19:18+00:00

[efi] Use elf2efi utility in place of efilink

2009-01-07T22:59:05+00:00

elf2efi converts a suitable ELF executable (containing relocation information, and with appropriate virtual addresses) into an EFI executable. It is less tightly coupled with the gPXE build process and, in particular, does not require the use of a hand-crafted PE image header in efiprefix.S. elf2efi correctly handles .bss sections, which significantly reduces the size of the gPXE EFI executable.

[build] Explicitly link efilink against -liberty

2008-11-19T19:24:48+00:00

On some systems, libbfd is supplied only as a static library; linking will fail unless -liberty is also specified.

[build] Fix building on FreeBSD

2008-10-17T17:24:04+00:00

FreeBSD requires the object format to be specified as elf_i386_fbsd, rather than elf_i386. Based on a patch from Eygene Ryabinkin

[efi] Add EFI image format and basic runtime environment

2008-10-13T09:24:14+00:00

We have EFI APIs for CPU I/O, PCI I/O, timers, console I/O, user access and user memory allocation. EFI executables are created using the vanilla GNU toolchain, with the EXE header handcrafted in assembly and relocations generated by a custom efilink utility.

[makefile] Add -Wformat-nonliteral as an extra warning category

2008-10-10T17:41:24+00:00

-Wformat-nonliteral is not enabled by -Wall and needs to be explicitly specified. Modified the few files that use nonliteral format strings to work with this new setting in place. Inspired by a patch from Carl Karsten and an identical patch from Rorschach .