openslx-ng/ipxe.git/src/config/config_romprefix.c, branch v1.20.1

[build] Fix the REQUIRE_SYMBOL mechanism

2015-03-05T00:59:38+00:00

At some point in the past few years, binutils became more aggressive at removing unused symbols. To function as a symbol requirement, a relocation record must now be in a section marked with @progbits and must not be in a section which gets discarded during the link (either via --gc-sections or via /DISCARD/). Update REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to generate relocation records meeting these criteria. To minimise the impact upon the final binary size, we use existing symbols (specified via the REQUIRING_SYMBOL() macro) as the relocation targets where possible. We use R_386_NONE or R_X86_64_NONE relocation types to prevent any actual unwanted relocation taking place. Where no suitable symbol exists for REQUIRING_SYMBOL() (such as in config.c), the macro PROVIDE_REQUIRING_SYMBOL() can be used to generate a one-byte-long symbol to act as the relocation target. If there are versions of binutils for which this approach fails, then the fallback will probably involve killing off REQUEST_SYMBOL(), redefining REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to use the current definition of REQUEST_SYMBOL(), and postprocessing the linked ELF file with something along the lines of "nm -u | wc -l" to check that there are no undefined symbols remaining. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL

2015-03-02T16:35:29+00:00

These files cannot be automatically relicensed by util/relicense.pl since they either contain unusual but trivial contributions (such as the addition of __nonnull function attributes), or contain lines dating back to the initial git revision (and so require manual knowledge of the code's origin). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[legal] Include full licence text for all GPL2_OR_LATER files

2015-02-26T17:59:53+00:00

Add the standard warranty disclaimer and Free Software Foundation address paragraphs to the licence text where these are not currently present. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown

[config] Make PXE stack a compile-time option

2010-01-20T22:23:37+00:00

For extremely tight space requirements and specific applications, it is sometimes desirable to create gPXE images that cannot provide the PXE API functionality to client programs. Add a configuration header option, PXE_STACK, that can be removed to remove this stack. Also add PXE_MENU to control the PXE boot menu, which most uses of gPXE do not need. Signed-off-by: Marty Connor