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* [build] Mark known reviewed files as permitted for UEFI Secure BootMichael Brown2026-01-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Some past security reviews carried out for UEFI Secure Boot signing submissions have covered specific drivers or functional areas of iPXE. Mark all of the files comprising these areas as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow duplicate MAC addressesMichael Brown2023-01-151-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many laptops now include the ability to specify a "system-specific MAC address" (also known as "pass-through MAC"), which is supposed to be used for both the onboard NIC and for any attached docking station or other USB NIC. This is intended to simplify interoperability with software or hardware that relies on a MAC address to recognise an individual machine: for example, a deployment server may associate the MAC address with a particular operating system image to be deployed. This therefore creates legitimate situations in which duplicate MAC addresses may exist within the same system. As described in commit 98d09a1 ("[netdevice] Avoid registering duplicate network devices"), the Xen netfront driver relies on the rejection of duplicate MAC addresses in order to inhibit registration of the emulated PCI devices that a Xen PV-HVM guest will create to shadow each of the paravirtual network devices. Move the code that rejects duplicate MAC addresses from the network device core to the Xen netfront driver, to allow for the existence of duplicate MAC addresses in non-Xen setups. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [xen] Support scatter-gather to allow for jumbo framesMichael Brown2021-04-141-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The use of jumbo frames for the Xen netfront virtual NIC requires the use of scatter-gather ("feature-sg"), with the receive descriptor ring becoming a list of page-sized buffers and the backend using as many page buffers as required for each packet. Since iPXE's abstraction of an I/O buffer does not include any sort of scatter-gather list, this requires an extra allocation and copy on the receive datapath for any packet that spans more than a single page. This support is required in order to successfully boot an AWS EC2 virtual machine (with non-enhanced networking) via iSCSI if jumbo frames are enabled, since the netback driver used in EC2 seems not to allow "feature-sg" to be renegotiated once the Linux kernel driver takes over. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [xen] Provide 18 4kB receive buffers to work around xen-netback bugMichael Brown2017-05-191-6/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Xen network backend (xen-netback) suffered from a regression between upstream Linux kernels 3.18 and 4.2 inclusive, which would cause packet reception to fail unless at least 18 receive buffers were available. This bug was fixed in kernel commit 1d5d485 ("xen-netback: require fewer guest Rx slots when not using GSO"). Work around this bug in affected versions of xen-netback by providing the requisite 18 receive buffers. Reported-by: Taylor Schneider <tschneider@live.com> Tested-by: Taylor Schneider <tschneider@live.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDLMichael Brown2015-03-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | Relicense files for which I am the sole author (as identified by util/relicense.pl). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [xen] Add support for Xen netfront virtual NICsMichael Brown2014-07-291-0/+153
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>