openslx-ng/ipxe.git/src/arch/x86_64/include, branch openslx

[build] Mark core files as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot

2026-01-14T13:25:34+00:00

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

[profile] Standardise return type of profile_timestamp()

2024-09-24T14:40:45+00:00

All consumers of profile_timestamp() currently treat the value as an unsigned long. Only the elapsed number of ticks is ever relevant: the absolute value of the timestamp is not used. Profiling is used to measure short durations that are generally fewer than a million CPU cycles, for which an unsigned long is easily large enough. Standardise the return type of profile_timestamp() as unsigned long across all CPU architectures. This allows 32-bit architectures such as i386 and riscv32 to omit all logic associated with retrieving the upper 32 bits of the 64-bit hardware counter, which simplifies the code and allows riscv32 and riscv64 to share the same implementation. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[libc] Centralise architecture-independent portions of setjmp.h

2024-09-12T14:01:04+00:00

The definitions of the setjmp() and longjmp() functions are common to all architectures, with only the definition of the jump buffer structure being architecture-specific. Move the architecture-specific portions to bits/setjmp.h and provide a common setjmp.h for the function definitions. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[gdb] Allow CPU architectures to omit support for GDB

2024-09-05T12:00:39+00:00

Move the file to , and provide a common dummy implementation for all architectures that have not yet implemented support for GDB. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[build] Allow for per-architecture unprefixed constant operand modifier

2023-02-05T23:55:14+00:00

Over the years, the undocumented operand modifier used to produce the unprefixed constant values in __einfo_error() has varied from "%c0" to "%a0" in commit 1a77466 ("[build] Fix use of inline assembly on GCC 4.8 ARM64 builds") and back to "%c0" in commit 3fb3ffc ("[build] Fix use of inline assembly on GCC 8 ARM64 builds"), according to the evolving demands of the toolchain. LoongArch64 suffers from a similar issue: GCC 13 will allow either, but the currently released GCC 12 allows only the "%a0" form. Introduce a macro ASM_NO_PREFIX, defined in bits/compiler.h, to abstract away this difference and allow different architectures to use different operand modifiers. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[dhcp] Simplify platform-specific client architecture definitions

2023-01-22T17:45:34+00:00

Move the platform-specific DHCP client architecture definitions to header files of the form . This simplifies the directory structure and allows the otherwise unused arch/$(ARCH)/include/$(PLATFORM) to be removed from the include directory search path, which avoids the confusing situation in which a header file may potentially be accessed through more than one path. For Linux userspace binaries on any architecture, use the EFI values for that architecture by delegating to the EFI header file. This avoids the need to explicitly select values for Linux userspace binaries for each architecture. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[build] Allow __asmcall to be used as a type attribute

2021-03-02T10:15:23+00:00

The "used" attribute can be applied only to functions or variables, which prevents the use of __asmcall as a type attribute. Fix by removing "used" from the definition of __asmcall for i386 and x86_64 architectures, and adding explicit __used annotations where necessary. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[linux] Use host glibc system call wrappers

2021-02-28T23:28:23+00:00

When building as a Linux userspace application, iPXE currently implements its own system calls to the host kernel rather than relying on the host's C library. The output binary is statically linked and has no external dependencies. This matches the general philosophy of other platforms on which iPXE runs, since there are no external libraries available on either BIOS or UEFI bare metal. However, it would be useful for the Linux userspace application to be able to link against host libraries such as libslirp. Modify the build process to perform a two-stage link: first picking out the requested objects in the usual way from blib.a but with relocations left present, then linking again with a helper object to create a standard hosted application. The helper object provides the standard main() entry point and wrappers for the Linux system calls required by the iPXE Linux drivers and interface code. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[build] Prevent use of MMX and SSE registers

2018-03-20T20:01:08+00:00

The existence of MMX and SSE is required by the System V x86_64 ABI and so is assumed by gcc, but these registers are not preserved by our own interrupt handlers and are unlikely to be preserved by other context switch handlers in a boot firmware environment. Explicitly prevent gcc from using MMX or SSE registers to avoid potential problems due to silent register corruption. We must remove the %xmm0-%xmm5 clobbers from the x86_64 version of hv_call() since otherwise gcc will complain about unknown register names. Theoretically, we should probably add code to explicitly preserve the %xmm0-%xmm5 registers across a hypercall, in order to guarantee to external code that these registers remain unchanged. In practice this is difficult since SSE registers are disabled by default: for background information see commits 71560d1 ("[librm] Preserve FPU, MMX and SSE state across calls to virt_call()") and dd9a14d ("[librm] Conditionalize the workaround for the Tivoli VMM's SSE garbling"). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[legal] Add missing FILE_LICENCE declarations

2017-12-29T11:57:00+00:00

Add missing FILE_LICENCE declarations to x86_64 headers based on the corresponding i386 headers (from which the x86_64 headers were originally derived). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown