openslx-ng/ipxe.git/src, branch v0.9.6

[release] Update version to 0.9.6 for release

2008-11-23T21:44:45+00:00

[b44] Add driver for Broadcom bcm44xx cards

2008-11-21T23:22:50+00:00

This driver is based on Stefan Hajnoczi's summer work, which is in turn based on version 1.01 of the linux b44 driver. I just assembled the pieces and fixed/added a few pieces here and there to make it work for my hardware. The most major limitation is that this driver won't work on systems with >1GB RAM due to the card not having enough address bits for that and gPXE not working around this limitation. Still, other than that the driver works well enough for at least 2 users :) and the above limitation can always be fixed when somebody wants it bad enough :) Signed-off-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas

[netdevice] Kill off the various guess_boot_netdev() functions

2008-11-21T20:34:42+00:00

Remove the assortment of miscellaneous hacks to guess the "network boot device", and replace them each with a call to last_opened_netdev(). It still isn't guaranteed correct, but it won't be any worse than before, and it will at least be consistent.

[netdevice] Provide function to retrieve the most recently opened net device

2008-11-21T20:34:02+00:00

There are currently four places within the codebase that use a heuristic to guess the "boot network device", with varying degrees of success. Add a feature to the net device core to maintain a list of open network devices, in order of opening, and provide a function last_opened_netdev() to retrieve the most recently opened net device. This should do a better job than the current assortment of guess_boot_netdev() functions.

[pxe] Select the correct network device on multiport cards

2008-11-21T19:45:05+00:00

When trying to find the "first open network device", it helps to actually check the NETDEV_OPEN flag.

[aoe] Use an AoE config query to identify the target MAC address

2008-11-19T21:42:33+00:00

The AoE spec does not specify that the source MAC address of a received packet actually matches the MAC address of the AoE target. In principle an AoE server can respond to an AoE request on any interface available to it, which may not be an address configured to accept AoE requests. This issue is resolved by implementing AoE device discovery. The purpose of AoE discovery is to find out which addresses an AoE target can use for requests. An AoE configuration command is sent when the AoE attach is attempted. The AoE target must respond to that configuration query from an interface that can accept requests. Based on a patch from Ryan Thomas

[blockdev] Move block device operations to structure block_device_operations

2008-11-19T20:04:43+00:00

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier

[virtio] Split virtio-net.c into several files.

2008-11-19T19:58:51+00:00

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier

[virtio] Consolidate virtio-net static data into a struct vring_virtqueue

2008-11-19T19:55:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier

[virtio] Remove dependency on nic for virtio PCI functions

2008-11-19T19:51:38+00:00

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier