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* [netdevice] Allow network devices to disclaim IRQ support at runtimeMichael Brown2015-07-281-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VLAN and 802.11 devices use a network device operations structure that wraps an underlying structure. For example, the vlan_operations structure wraps the network device operations structure of the underlying trunk device. This can cause false positives from the current implementation of netdev_irq_supported(), which will always report that VLAN devices support interrupts since it has no visibility into the support provided by the underlying trunk device. Fix by allowing network devices to explicitly flag that interrupts are not supported, despite the presence of an irq() method. Originally-fixed-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add a generic concept of a "blocked link"Michael Brown2015-06-251-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | When Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is used, there may be a substantial delay (tens of seconds) from the time that the link goes up to the time that the port starts forwarding packets. Add a generic concept of a "blocked link" (i.e. a link which is up but which is not expected to communicate successfully), and allow "ifstat" to indicate when a link is blocked. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDLMichael Brown2015-03-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | 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 <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [rndis] Add generic RNDIS device abstractionMichael Brown2014-12-181-6/+5Star
| | | | | | | RNDIS provides an abstraction of a network device on top of a generic packet transmission mechanism. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Avoid registering duplicate network devicesMichael Brown2014-07-301-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reject network devices which appear to be duplicates of those already available via a different underlying hardware device. On a Xen PV-HVM system, this allows us to filter out the emulated PCI NICs (which would otherwise appear alongside the netfront NICs). Note that we cannot use the Xen facility to "unplug" the emulated PCI NICs, since there is no guarantee that the OS we subsequently load will have a native netfront driver. We permit devices with the same MAC address if they are attached to the same underlying hardware device (e.g. VLAN devices). Inspired-by: Marin Hannache <git@mareo.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Notify upper-layer drivers when RX processing is (un)frozenMichael Brown2014-03-141-20/+2Star
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add generic concept of a network device configuratorMichael Brown2013-11-051-0/+79
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | iPXE supports multiple mechanisms for network device configuration: DHCPv4 for IPv4, FIP for FCoE, and SLAAC for IPv6. At present, DHCPv4 requires an explicit action (e.g. a "dhcp" command), FIP is initiated implicitly upon opening a network device, and SLAAC takes place whenever a RA happens to be received. Add a generic concept of a network device configurator, which provides a common interface to triggering configuration and to reporting the result of the configuration process. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [ipv6] Add IPv6 socket address converterMichael Brown2013-10-211-1/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add find_netdev_by_index()Michael Brown2013-10-211-0/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add method for generating EUI-64 address from link-layer addressMichael Brown2013-09-031-0/+9
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add concept of a network device indexMichael Brown2013-09-031-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | IPv6 link-local socket addresses require some way to specify a local network device. We cannot simply use a pointer to the network device, since a struct sockaddr_in6 may be long-lived and has no way to hold a reference to the network device. Using a network device index allows a socket address to cleanly refer to a network device without worrying about whether or not that device continues to exist. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Increase maximum network-layer address lengthMichael Brown2013-09-031-1/+1
| | | | | | IPv6 uses 16-byte network-layer addresses. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [settings] Eliminate settings "tag magic"Michael Brown2013-05-011-32/+0Star
| | | | | | | Create an explicit concept of "settings scope" and eliminate the magic values used for numerical setting tags. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add netdev_tx_defer() to allow drivers to defer transmissionsMichael Brown2013-05-011-0/+4
| | | | | | | | Devices with small transmit descriptor rings may temporarily run out of space. Provide netdev_tx_defer() to allow drivers to defer packets for retransmission as soon as a descriptor becomes available. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [ipoib] Expose Ethernet-compatible eIPoIB link-layer addresses and headersMichael Brown2012-08-311-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Almost all clients of the raw-packet interfaces (UNDI and SNP) can handle only Ethernet link layers. Expose an Ethernet-compatible link layer to local clients, while remaining compatible with IPoIB on the wire. This requires manipulation of ARP (but not DHCP) packets within the IPoIB driver. This is ugly, but it's the only viable way to allow IPoIB devices to be driven via the raw-packet interfaces. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow link layer to report broadcast/multicast packets via pull()Michael Brown2011-07-151-9/+19
| | | | | | | | Allow the link layer to directly report whether or not a packet is multicast or broadcast at the time of calling pull(), rather than relying on heuristics to determine this at a later stage. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow non-completion TX errors to be recordedMichael Brown2011-06-281-0/+2
| | | | | | | | Allow TX errors to be recorded against a network device even when the packet didn't make it as far as netdev_tx(). Inspired-by: Dominik Russenberger <dominik.russenberger@terreactive.ch> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [settings] Formalise notion of setting applicabilityMichael Brown2011-03-221-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expose a function setting_applies() to allow a caller to determine whether or not a particular setting is applicable to a particular settings block. Restrict DHCP-backed settings blocks to accepting only DHCP-based settings. Restrict network device settings blocks to accepting only DHCP-based settings and network device-specific settings such as "mac". Inspired-by: Glenn Brown <glenn@myri.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow devices to indicate that interrupts are not supportedMichael Brown2011-01-251-0/+14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [settings] Apply settings block name in register_settings()Michael Brown2010-12-011-2/+1Star
| | | | | | | | Pass the settings block name as a parameter to register_settings(), rather than defining it with settings_init() (and then possibly changing it by directly manipulating settings->name). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [vlan] Add support for IEEE 802.1Q VLANsMichael Brown2010-11-201-5/+6
| | | | | Originally-implemented-by: michael-dev@fami-braun.de Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Allow per-device receive queue processing to be frozenMichael Brown2010-11-201-2/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several use cases (e.g. the UNDI API and the EFI SNP API) require access to the raw network device receive queue, and so currently use manual calls to netdev_poll() on a specific network device in order to prevent received packets from being processed by the network stack. As an alternative, provide a flag that allows receive queue processing to be frozen on a per-device basis. When receive queue processing is frozen, packets will be enqueued as normal, but will not be automatically dequeued and passed up the network stack. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add MAX_NET_HEADER_LEN and MAX_LL_NET_HEADER_LENMichael Brown2010-11-191-0/+10
| | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Pass both link-layer addresses in net_tx() and net_rx()Michael Brown2010-10-071-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | FCoE requires the use of fabric-provided MAC addresses, which breaks the assumption that the net device's MAC address is implicitly the source address for net_tx() and the (unicast) destination address for net_rx(). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [netdevice] Add the concept of a network upper-layer driverMichael Brown2010-09-051-21/+39
| | | | | | | Add the concept of a network upper-layer driver, which can create arbitrary devices on top of network devices. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
* [build] Rename gPXE to iPXEMichael Brown2010-04-201-0/+557
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and updating URLs to match. Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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