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4 Commits (19c59bb1317e58c44ce606dadbd0ee8dcfcf19ac)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Brown 19c59bb131 [iscsi] Ensure ISID is consistent within an iSCSI session
Commit 5f4ab0d ("[iscsi] Randomise a portion of the ISID to force new
session instantiation") introduced a regression by randomising the
ISID on each call to iscsi_start_login(), which may be called more
than once per connection, rather than on each call to
iscsi_open_connection(), which is guaranteed to be called only once
per connection.  This is incorrect behaviour that causes our
connection to be rejected by some iSCSI targets (observed with a
COMSTAR target under OpenSolaris).

Fix by generating the ISID in iscsi_open_connection(), and storing the
randomised ISID as part of the session state.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2010-10-18 14:40:27 +01:00
Michael Brown 220495f8bf [block] Replace gPXE block-device API with an iPXE asynchronous interface
The block device interface used in gPXE predates the invention of even
the old gPXE data-transfer interface, let alone the current iPXE
generic asynchronous interface mechanism.  Bring this old code up to
date, with the following benefits:

 o  Block device commands can be cancelled by the requestor.  The INT 13
    layer uses this to provide a global timeout on all INT 13 calls,
    with the result that an unexpected passive failure mode (such as
    an iSCSI target ACKing the request but never sending a response)
    will lead to a timeout that gets reported back to the INT 13 user,
    rather than simply freezing the system.

 o  INT 13,00 (reset drive) is now able to reset the underlying block
    device.  INT 13 users, such as DOS, that use INT 13,00 as a method
    for error recovery now have a chance of recovering.

 o  All block device commands are tagged, with a numerical tag that
    will show up in debugging output and in packet captures; this will
    allow easier interpretation of bug reports that include both
    sources of information.

 o  The extremely ugly hacks used to generate the boot firmware tables
    have been eradicated and replaced with a generic acpi_describe()
    method (exploiting the ability of iPXE interfaces to pass through
    methods to an underlying interface).  The ACPI tables are now
    built in a shared data block within .bss16, rather than each
    requiring dedicated space in .data16.

 o  The architecture-independent concept of a SAN device has been
    exposed to the iPXE core through the sanboot API, which provides
    calls to hook, unhook, boot, and describe SAN devices.  This
    allows for much more flexible usage patterns (such as hooking an
    empty SAN device and then running an OS installer via TFTP).

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2010-09-14 20:37:15 +01:00
Michael Brown 4327d5d39f [interface] Convert all data-xfer interfaces to generic interfaces
Remove data-xfer as an interface type, and replace data-xfer
interfaces with generic interfaces supporting the data-xfer methods.

Filter interfaces (as used by the TLS layer) are handled using the
generic pass-through interface capability.  A side-effect of this is
that deliver_raw() no longer exists as a data-xfer method.  (In
practice this doesn't lose any efficiency, since there are no
instances within the current codebase where xfer_deliver_raw() is used
to pass data to an interface supporting the deliver_raw() method.)

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2010-06-22 15:50:31 +01:00
Michael Brown 8406115834 [build] Rename gPXE to iPXE
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>
2010-04-19 23:43:39 +01:00