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Michael Brown c89a446cf0 [efi] Run at TPL_CALLBACK to protect against UEFI timers 
As noted in the comments, UEFI manages to combines the all of the
worst aspects of both a polling design (inefficiency and inability to
sleep until something interesting happens) and of an interrupt-driven
design (the complexity of code that could be preempted at any time,
thanks to UEFI timers).

This causes problems in particular for UEFI USB keyboards: the
keyboard driver calls UsbAsyncInterruptTransfer() to set up a periodic
timer which is used to poll the USB bus.  This poll may interrupt a
critical section within iPXE, typically resulting in list corruption
and either a hang or reboot.

Work around this problem by mirroring the BIOS design, in which we run
with interrupts disabled almost all of the time.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
 		2018-02-20 10:56:31 +00:00
contrib [coverity] Add Coverity user model 2017-03-22 16:46:03 +02:00
src [efi] Run at TPL_CALLBACK to protect against UEFI timers 2018-02-20 10:56:31 +00:00
.travis.yml [travis] Integrate with Coverity Scan 2017-03-23 10:51:25 +02:00
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