openslx-ng/ipxe.git/src/core, 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.

[login] Add "login" command and UI

2009-02-17T12:02:16+00:00

[settings] Allow store_setting() to access the root settings block

2009-02-17T11:57:31+00:00

[comboot] Fix reference counting on replacement images

2009-02-17T01:45:12+00:00

When chaining COMBOOT images, the old images now get freed correctly.

[comboot] Allow for tail recursion of COMBOOT images

2009-02-17T00:47:35+00:00

Multi-level menus via COMBOOT rely on the COMBOOT program being able to exit and invoke a new COMBOOT program (the next menu). This works, but rapidly (within about five iterations) runs out of space in gPXE's internal stack, since each new image is executed in a new function context. Fix by allowing tail recursion between images; an image can now specify a replacement image for itself, and image_exec() will perform the necessary tail recursion.

[uri] Allow use of relative URIs when calling churi()

2009-02-16T04:56:55+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 .

[xfer] Make consistent assumptions that xfer metadata can never be NULL

2009-02-15T08:44:22+00:00

The documentation in xfer.h and xfer.c does not say that the metadata parameter is optional in calls such as xfer_deliver_iob_meta() and the deliver_iob() method. However, some code in net/ is prepared to accept a NULL pointer, and xfer_deliver_as_iob() passes a NULL pointer directly to the deliver_iob() method. Fix this mess of conflicting assumptions by making everything assume that the metadata parameter is mandatory, and fixing xfer_deliver_as_iob() to pass in a dummy metadata structure (as is already done in xfer_deliver_iob()).

[base64] Add base64 encoding functions

2009-02-13T14:54:13+00:00

[settings] Handle errors in fetchf_uristring()

2009-02-12T09:16:53+00:00

fetchf_uristring() was failing to handle error values from fetch_setting(), resulting in its attempting to allocate extremely large temporary buffers on the stack (and so overrunning the stack and locking up the machine). Problem reported by Shao Miller .