Define an ordering for internal EFI drivers on the basis of how close
the driver is to the hardware, and attempt to start drivers in this
order.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We want exclusive access to the network device, both for performance
reasons and because we perform operations such as EAPoL that affect
the entire link. We currently drive the network card via either a
native hardware driver or via the SNP or NII/UNDI interfaces, both of
which grant us this exclusive access.
Add an alternative driver that drives the network card non-exclusively
via the EFI_MANAGED_NETWORK_PROTOCOL interface. This can function as
a fallback for situations where neither SNP nor NII/UNDI interfaces
are functional, and also opens up the possibility of non-destructively
installing a temporary network device over which to download the
autoexec.ipxe script.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
UEFI has the mildly annoying habit of installing copies of the
EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL instance on the IPv4 and IPv6 child device
handles. This can cause iPXE's SNP driver to attempt to bind to a
copy of the EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL that iPXE itself provided on a
different handle.
Fix by refusing to bind to an SNP (or NII) handle if there exists
another instance of the same protocol further up the device path (on
the basis that we always want to bind to the highest possible device).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The raw EFI_HANDLE value is almost never useful to know, and simply
adds noise to the already verbose debug messages. Improve the
legibility of debug messages by using only the name generated by
efi_handle_name().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
End users almost certainly don't care whether the underlying interface
is SNP or NII/UNDI. Try to minimise surprise and unnecessary
documentation by including the NII driver whenever the SNP driver is
requested.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Rewrite the SNP NIC driver to use non-blocking and deferrable
transmissions, to provide link status detection, to provide
information about the underlying (PCI) hardware device, and to avoid
unnecessary I/O buffer allocations during receive polling.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown