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Michael Brown 6769a7c3c6 [efi] Skip interface uninstallation during shutdown 
iPXE seems to be almost alone in the UEFI world in attempting to shut
down cleanly, free resources, and leave hardware in a well-defined
reset state before handing over to the booted operating system.

The UEFI driver model does allow for graceful shutdown via
uninstallation of protocol interfaces.  However, virtually no other
UEFI drivers do this, and the external code paths that react to
uninstallation are consequently poorly tested.  This leads to a
proliferation of bugs found in UEFI implementations in the wild, as
described in commits such as 1295b4a ("[efi] Allow initialisation via
SNP interface even while claimed") or b6e2ea0 ("[efi] Veto the HP
XhciDxe Driver").

Try to avoid triggering such bugs by unconditionally skipping the
protocol interface uninstallation during UEFI boot services shutdown,
leaving the interfaces present but nullified and deliberately leaking
the containing memory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
 		2020-12-17 21:32:49 +00:00
contrib [coverity] Override assumptions about wcrtomb() and hmac_init() 2019-08-17 17:18:54 +01:00
src [efi] Skip interface uninstallation during shutdown 2020-12-17 21:32:49 +00:00
.travis.yml [travis] Ensure that most recent tag is always available 2020-01-03 00:14:03 +01:00
COPYING [legal] Update GPLv2 licence text 2015-02-26 17:59:53 +00:00
COPYING.GPLv2 [legal] Update GPLv2 licence text 2015-02-26 17:59:53 +00:00
COPYING.UBDL [legal] Add support for the Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence 2015-03-02 12:07:14 +00:00
README [doc] Re-add README file 2010-05-28 00:03:47 +01:00

README 

iPXE README File

Quick start guide:

   cd src
   make

For any more detailed instructions, see http://ipxe.org