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14 years agocat.c32: move from samples to modules; remove debug code
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 11 May 2010 23:08:20 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
cat.c32: move from samples to modules; remove debug code

Move cat.c32 from samples to modules, and remove debugging messages.
Real users may want to use this.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocat.c32: check if filename exists
Gert Hulselmans [Tue, 4 May 2010 00:07:43 +0000 (17:07 -0700)]
cat.c32: check if filename exists

Don't crash if the file doesn't exist.

Signed-off-by: Gert Hulselmans <gerth@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoMerge remote branch 'hdt-pierre/fixes-for-3.86'
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 11 May 2010 21:38:57 +0000 (14:38 -0700)]
Merge remote branch 'hdt-pierre/fixes-for-3.86'

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'erwan/master'
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 11 May 2010 20:55:19 +0000 (13:55 -0700)]
Merge remote branch 'erwan/master'

14 years agoVPD: Fixing base_address
Erwan Velu [Tue, 11 May 2010 20:52:27 +0000 (22:52 +0200)]
VPD: Fixing base_address

This commit now save properly VPD's address.

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'erwan/master'
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 11 May 2010 19:12:01 +0000 (12:12 -0700)]
Merge remote branch 'erwan/master'

14 years agoDMI: Increasing processor buffer size
Erwan Velu [Thu, 6 May 2010 19:24:35 +0000 (21:24 +0200)]
DMI: Increasing processor buffer size

Impact: avoid string truncation

The version field could be bigger than 32 char.

14 years agoDMI: Fixing memory corruption
Erwan Velu [Thu, 6 May 2010 19:23:22 +0000 (21:23 +0200)]
DMI: Fixing memory corruption

Impact: avoid memory corruption

Too much usage of strcpy & sprintf was leading to serious memory
corruption. Using snprintf & strncpy is prefered.

14 years agoDMI: removing useless variable
Erwan Velu [Thu, 6 May 2010 19:22:46 +0000 (21:22 +0200)]
DMI: removing useless variable

Impact: none

Removing useless variable

14 years agomboot.c32: autodetect Solaris
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 3 May 2010 22:11:10 +0000 (15:11 -0700)]
mboot.c32: autodetect Solaris

Autodetect Solaris kernels (based on the ELF header OSABI field) and
use the Solaris workarounds in that case.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agogfxboot: fix menu label handling
Steffen Winterfeldt [Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:17:57 +0000 (15:17 +0200)]
gfxboot: fix menu label handling

Signed-off-by: Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@opensuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agogfxboot: better error handling
Steffen Winterfeldt [Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:18:46 +0000 (13:18 +0200)]
gfxboot: better error handling

Signed-off-by: Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@opensuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agogfxboot: fix localboot
Steffen Winterfeldt [Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:43:16 +0000 (17:43 +0200)]
gfxboot: fix localboot

Signed-off-by: Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@opensuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agogfxboot: turn off graphics before starting kernel
Steffen Winterfeldt [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:42:44 +0000 (17:42 +0200)]
gfxboot: turn off graphics before starting kernel

Signed-off-by: Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@opensuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agogfxboot: handle IPAPPEND
Steffen Winterfeldt [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:42:12 +0000 (17:42 +0200)]
gfxboot: handle IPAPPEND

Signed-off-by: Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@opensuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agogfxboot: make config statements case-insensitive
Steffen Winterfeldt [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:39:46 +0000 (17:39 +0200)]
gfxboot: make config statements case-insensitive

Signed-off-by: Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@opensuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agogfxboot: support MENU LABEL statement
Steffen Winterfeldt [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:38:39 +0000 (17:38 +0200)]
gfxboot: support MENU LABEL statement

Signed-off-by: Steffen Winterfeldt <wfeldt@opensuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
14 years agochain.c32 sethidden option fix
Michal Soltys [Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:37:25 +0000 (10:37 +0200)]
chain.c32 sethidden option fix

Hidden sectors value was applied at the wrong offset.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocore: make sure we observe EFLAGS_ID only syslinux-3.86
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:24:25 +0000 (09:24 -0700)]
core: make sure we observe EFLAGS_ID only

When looking for CPUID, make sure we only look at EFLAGS_ID and no
other flags that could possibly have changed for extrinsic reasons.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocpuid.c32: output the correct register names
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:56:12 +0000 (08:56 -0700)]
cpuid.c32: output the correct register names

Output the correct register names in cpuid.c32; fix copy-and-paste
error.

Reported-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoNEWS: document mBFT fix syslinux-3.86-pre4
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:16:14 +0000 (20:16 -0700)]
NEWS: document mBFT fix

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomemdisk: Calculate mBFT checksum later
Shao Miller [Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:12:37 +0000 (01:12 -0500)]
memdisk: Calculate mBFT checksum later

We were calculating the mBFT checksum too early; dpt_ptr could
change after checksumming, so we now do it after that possibility.

Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
14 years agocore: remove stray debugging statement syslinux-3.86-pre3
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:20:23 +0000 (17:20 -0700)]
core: remove stray debugging statement

Remove a stray debugging printout when running on Xen.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoNEWS: document MEMDISK offset fix syslinux-3.86-pre2
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:21:16 +0000 (15:21 -0700)]
NEWS: document MEMDISK offset fix

14 years agomemdisk: MBR not recognized correctly
Bodo Stroesser [Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:56:29 +0000 (17:56 +0100)]
memdisk: MBR not recognized correctly

This fixes a small inaccuracy in memdisk:

get_disk_image_geometry() does not use MBR data to detect disk
geometry, since it checks MBR signature at wrong offset.

This normally does not cause problems, because memdisk guesses a
reasonable value, if no MBR is found.

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser at ts.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoNEWS: update
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:18:55 +0000 (15:18 -0700)]
NEWS: update

14 years agocore: remove do_idle from pollchar
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:13:58 +0000 (15:13 -0700)]
core: remove do_idle from pollchar

Remove do_idle from pollchar; it is highly inappropriate while, for
example, checking for a keypress during disk activity.  Furthermore,
make sure we reset the idle counter on events that indicate actual
disk activity.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agocpuid.c32: very simple low-level CPUID info CLI routine
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:05:17 +0000 (15:05 -0700)]
cpuid.c32: very simple low-level CPUID info CLI routine

Add a very simple com32 program to dump a single CPUID leaf.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agocore: Workaround for Xen HVM HLT-in-real-mode bug
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:02:36 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
core: Workaround for Xen HVM HLT-in-real-mode bug

Xen HVM when used with the "vmxassist" program crashes if HLT is
executed in real mode.  Detect a version of Xen old enough to support
"vmxassist", and if it is found, then disable HLT.

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570496

Reported-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoClean up the version/copyright strings reported via the comboot API
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:37:41 +0000 (13:37 -0700)]
Clean up the version/copyright strings reported via the comboot API

Skip leading garbage in the version and copyright strings reported via
the comboot API.  Clean up fixes for those, and document the situation.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agocom32: export the filename of a com32 module to the module itself
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:58:30 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
com32: export the filename of a com32 module to the module itself

Export the filename of the com32 module to the module itself, setting
argv[0].

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agoMCONFIG: update gcc options for embedded and com32
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:50:45 +0000 (13:50 -0700)]
MCONFIG: update gcc options for embedded and com32

Update the gcc options used for embedded and for com32 and make sure
they match.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agomboot: set boot loader name
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:22:45 +0000 (13:22 -0700)]
mboot: set boot loader name

Set the boot loader name based on syslinux_version()->version_string.
Based on a prior patch by Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
14 years agogpllib: fix call to CPUID function 4
Sebastian Herbszt [Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:55:00 +0000 (21:55 +0100)]
gpllib: fix call to CPUID function 4

Only call CPUID function 4 if cpuid_level indicates its availability.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocore: use MY_NAME for syslinux_banner
Sebastian Herbszt [Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:23:17 +0000 (13:23 +0100)]
core: use MY_NAME for syslinux_banner

Use MY_NAME for syslinux_banner in isolinux and pxelinux.
This is already done in ldlinux and extlinux.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodisk.c32: add disk geometry check
Pierre-Alexandre Meyer [Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:10:18 +0000 (20:10 -0800)]
disk.c32: add disk geometry check

Make sure the CHS geometry is valid before displaying disk
information to avoid showing garbage.

Debugging-info-by: Gert Hulselmans <gerth@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <pierre@mouraf.org>
14 years agoNEWS, version: update for 3.86 syslinux-3.86-pre1
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:19:16 +0000 (11:19 -0800)]
NEWS, version: update for 3.86

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agochain.c32: Fix chaining to MBRs
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 5 Mar 2010 19:13:28 +0000 (11:13 -0800)]
chain.c32: Fix chaining to MBRs

The change to load the bootsector even when loading a bootstrap from a
file broke the handing of chainloading the MBR of a disk.  Fix this.

Debugging-info-by: Thomas Mieslinger <thomas.mieslinger@lundl.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agolibpci: merge BIOS read and BIOS write
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:26:39 +0000 (22:26 -0800)]
libpci: merge BIOS read and BIOS write

Save a few bytes by merging the very similar BIOS read and BIOS write
functions.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoi915resolution: use libpci to access PCI config space syslinux-3.85 syslinux-3.85-pre13
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:12:57 +0000 (20:12 -0800)]
i915resolution: use libpci to access PCI config space

Use libpci to access PCI config space.  This *hopefully* will make it
less likely that some old machine hangs when failing to set the
requested video mode.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoNEWS: document i915resolution merge. syslinux-3.85-pre12
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:11:09 +0000 (15:11 -0800)]
NEWS: document i915resolution merge.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'i915res'
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:09:31 +0000 (15:09 -0800)]
Merge branch 'i915res'

14 years agoMakefile: dos/copybs.com now in dosutil
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:22:24 +0000 (15:22 -0800)]
Makefile: dos/copybs.com now in dosutil

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agodosutil: move copybs here, update Makefile
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:19:54 +0000 (15:19 -0800)]
dosutil: move copybs here, update Makefile

Move copybs to dosutil, change the Makefile to deal with UPX being
able to compress (e.g. very small files.)

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomtools: add MTOOLS_FAT_COMPATIBILITY=1
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:09:27 +0000 (17:09 -0800)]
mtools: add MTOOLS_FAT_COMPATIBILITY=1

It's perfectly legitimate to have a bigger FAT area than is needed,
and it is often done for alignment.  Tell mtools not to throw a hissy
fit over it.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agochain.c: part_info -> partinfo syslinux-3.85-pre11
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:46:22 +0000 (16:46 -0800)]
chain.c: part_info -> partinfo

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoNEWS: update for 3.85 release
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:45:11 +0000 (16:45 -0800)]
NEWS: update for 3.85 release

14 years agochain.c32: add option to set hidden sectors; load boot sector for NTLDR
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:45:42 +0000 (14:45 -0800)]
chain.c32: add option to set hidden sectors; load boot sector for NTLDR

Add an option to update the in-memory version of FAT/NTFS hidden
sectors (== partition offset); load the boot sector for NTLDR.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agopxelinux: complete but disable debugging code, not for production syslinux-3.85-pre10
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:02:50 +0000 (17:02 -0800)]
pxelinux: complete but disable debugging code, not for production

Disable some debugging code that was never intended for production
use.  The intent is to track down specific memory-clobbering bugs.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocore: document the stack location, use STACK_TOP throughout
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:49:55 +0000 (16:49 -0800)]
core: document the stack location, use STACK_TOP throughout

The global absolute symbol STACK_TOP defined in layout.inc can be used
by the linker script as well as by anything else that needs to know
where the stack is.  Also document why we do it differently for
PXELINUX.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agopxelinux: move the stack to avoid AMI BIOS bug
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:37:20 +0000 (13:37 -0800)]
pxelinux: move the stack to avoid AMI BIOS bug

There is apparently some AMI BIOSes which leave a BEV stack just below
7c00h, which means that they can't return from the PXE NBP.  Thus, for
PXELINUX, move the stack down a few kilobytes.

This particularly refers to the "rouilj/ops12" system my private
sysdump archive.

Reported-and-tested-by: John Rouillard <rouilj@renesys.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'master' into i915res syslinux-3.85-pre63
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:39:20 +0000 (14:39 -0800)]
Merge branch 'master' into i915res

14 years agovesa: for jpg or png images, tile the image across the screen
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:37:48 +0000 (14:37 -0800)]
vesa: for jpg or png images, tile the image across the screen

If we specify a smaller image than the screen size, tile it across the
screen rather than leaving a big black box.  This may have to be made
configurable.

Also note that Syslinux currently does not handle the case of an image
bleeding off the end of the screen.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: quiet gcc warning
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:37:20 +0000 (14:37 -0800)]
sysdump: quiet gcc warning

Null change to quiet a gcc warning.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomemdisk: make "nopass" type-specific, add "nopassany"
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:13:11 +0000 (09:13 -0800)]
memdisk: make "nopass" type-specific, add "nopassany"

Make "nopass" specific to the current drive type.  Add new option
"nopassany", which also clobbers the drive counts of both types.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: use the same serial receive threshold as the core syslinux-3.85-pre9
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 04:08:46 +0000 (20:08 -0800)]
sysdump: use the same serial receive threshold as the core

Match the core with regards to the serial receive threshold.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: make ymodem work even on a serial console
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 04:06:27 +0000 (20:06 -0800)]
sysdump: make ymodem work even on a serial console

Make it possible to do a ymodem transfer even on the port used for a
serial console.  Furthermore, on a serial console, get the parameters
from the serial console information, so port number and speed don't
have to be specified.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: don't include final null byte in version file
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:17:35 +0000 (17:17 -0800)]
sysdump: don't include final null byte in version file

We don't want the null byte at the end as part of the version file.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: ymodem: actually retransmit a block if we get NAK
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:05:08 +0000 (17:05 -0800)]
sysdump: ymodem: actually retransmit a block if we get NAK

Incorrectly nested loops, we need to actually retransmit if we get a
NAK reply...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: actually make the new backend system work syslinux-3.85-pre8
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:26:40 +0000 (16:26 -0800)]
sysdump: actually make the new backend system work

With these changes, both TFTP and Ymodem seem to actually work.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: change to a two-phase generate/output model, buffer in memory
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:14:21 +0000 (15:14 -0800)]
sysdump: change to a two-phase generate/output model, buffer in memory

Instead of outputting data as it is generated, buffer it all in memory
and then output it all at once.  This not only gives us exact size and
so on before we start, but turns out to be faster at least for TFTP.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: serial: add missing header file
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:14:46 +0000 (12:14 -0800)]
sysdump: serial: add missing header file

Missing header file -> warning.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: be_tftp.c: fix prototype
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:14:14 +0000 (12:14 -0800)]
sysdump: be_tftp.c: fix prototype

The init function now takes an additional length argument.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: *actually* generate the proper version string
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:13:34 +0000 (12:13 -0800)]
sysdump: *actually* generate the proper version string

Make the gen-id.sh script actually do the right thing...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: handle the case of more than one DMI table
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:56:19 +0000 (11:56 -0800)]
sysdump: handle the case of more than one DMI table

On the offchance a system has more than one valid DMI table, record
them all.  Also record the address of the signature structure and of
the table itself.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: record the sysdump version used to generate a bundle
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:55:41 +0000 (11:55 -0800)]
sysdump: record the sysdump version used to generate a bundle

Record the sysdump version used to actually generate a data set.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: dump CPUID information syslinux-3.85-pre7
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 08:09:31 +0000 (00:09 -0800)]
sysdump: dump CPUID information

Dump CPUID information in as generic of a way as is possible, given
the ugliness in certain places.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: remove unused variable
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 08:08:50 +0000 (00:08 -0800)]
sysdump: remove unused variable

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: be more explicit about what we are doing
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:26:53 +0000 (23:26 -0800)]
sysdump: be more explicit about what we are doing

Print more information on the console about what is going on.  That
can help detect problems if we find a machine which hangs on sysdump.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: fix the dumping of the e820 memory information
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:26:32 +0000 (23:26 -0800)]
sysdump: fix the dumping of the e820 memory information

Need to advance the pointer...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: fix hacking of the DMI structure address
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:26:00 +0000 (23:26 -0800)]
sysdump: fix hacking of the DMI structure address

Fix the hacking of the DMI structure address, for dmidecode's sake.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: dump memory map information
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:10:24 +0000 (23:10 -0800)]
sysdump: dump memory map information

Dump the memory map information - e820 et al.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: add PCI config space dumping
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 06:54:06 +0000 (22:54 -0800)]
sysdump: add PCI config space dumping

Dump PCI configuration space.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: add support for dumping DMI tables
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 06:28:01 +0000 (22:28 -0800)]
sysdump: add support for dumping DMI tables

Add support for dumping DMI tables; hopefully in a way that is
compatible with dmidecode.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: add back ymodem support; clean up memory dump structure
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 05:55:03 +0000 (21:55 -0800)]
sysdump: add back ymodem support; clean up memory dump structure

Now we just need more front ends (information providers)...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: add missing return statement in cpio_writefile()
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:47:15 +0000 (17:47 -0800)]
sysdump: add missing return statement in cpio_writefile()

cpio_writefile() should return the actual return value...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agopxe: add missing prototype for pxe_dns()
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:46:21 +0000 (17:46 -0800)]
pxe: add missing prototype for pxe_dns()

All global functions should have a prototype...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: dump vesa modes, generate usable timestamps
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:43:11 +0000 (17:43 -0800)]
sysdump: dump vesa modes, generate usable timestamps

Dump all the VESA modes; give functional timestamps for the cpio
members.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: first working version (can dump lowmem over TFTP)
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:38:53 +0000 (16:38 -0800)]
sysdump: first working version (can dump lowmem over TFTP)

Most of the infrastructure for sysdump, and enough to make it useful.
Sysdump will produce a gzipped cpio archive containing individual data
members; for now only a memory dump of lowmem.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocom32: add library function for DNS lookup
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:31:26 +0000 (16:31 -0800)]
com32: add library function for DNS lookup

Add a library function for DNS lookup

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosyslinux/pxe.h use the same type as <com32.h> for a far pointer
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:29:41 +0000 (16:29 -0800)]
syslinux/pxe.h use the same type as <com32.h> for a far pointer

<syslinux/pxe.h> was using segoff16_t, <com32.h> was using far_ptr_t
for the same thing -- use the same type so the macros are available
for both.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agopxelinux: give our own IP address in the "derivate info" API call
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:28:05 +0000 (16:28 -0800)]
pxelinux: give our own IP address in the "derivate info" API call

Add our own IP address to the "get derivative-specific info" API call.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agosysdump: port memdump to com32 with the intent of enhancing it
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:24:24 +0000 (11:24 -0800)]
sysdump: port memdump to com32 with the intent of enhancing it

Port memdump to com32, with the intent of modifying and enhancing it.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomemdump: srecs need a length, and max 32 data bytes
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 02:17:10 +0000 (18:17 -0800)]
memdump: srecs need a length, and max 32 data bytes

Length + 32 data bytes max...

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomemdump: allow outputting S-records
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 02:03:14 +0000 (18:03 -0800)]
memdump: allow outputting S-records

Allow outputting S-records, for users who only have the capability of
passively monitoring a serial port as opposed to being able to capture
the contents directly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agopxelinux: call reset_pxe before local boot syslinux-3.85-pre6
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:41:02 +0000 (16:41 -0800)]
pxelinux: call reset_pxe before local boot

Reset the PXE configuration before we do a local boot.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agogPXE: change heap size to 512K
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:18:36 +0000 (11:18 -0800)]
gPXE: change heap size to 512K

Change heap size from 128K to 512K to accommodate larger TCP windows.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomemdisk: update documentation
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 04:57:30 +0000 (20:57 -0800)]
memdisk: update documentation

Document the nopass option, eltorito.sys is now in the standard
distro.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agogPXE: bump the window size to 64K
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:08:29 +0000 (11:08 -0800)]
gPXE: bump the window size to 64K

Change the window size from 4K to 64K to have at least a hope of sane
WAN performance.  Retransmission cost is mostly related to timeouts,
not amount retransmitted, anyway.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agogPXE: suppress the Ctrl+B banner syslinux-3.85-pre5
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:13:28 +0000 (16:13 -0800)]
gPXE: suppress the Ctrl+B banner

Suppress the Ctrl+B banner and zero out the timeout.  It's not very
useful for an integrated product, and very visually annoying on NBP
chainload.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'master' into i915res syslinux-3.85-pre62
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:06:41 +0000 (16:06 -0800)]
Merge branch 'master' into i915res

14 years agoMerge branch 'chainload'
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:06:21 +0000 (16:06 -0800)]
Merge branch 'chainload'

14 years agomenu: add MENU CLEAR option
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:05:59 +0000 (16:05 -0800)]
menu: add MENU CLEAR option

Add MENU CLEAR to clear the screen on menu exit.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agomenu: when running hidden, clear the screen before final boot
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:55:47 +0000 (15:55 -0800)]
menu: when running hidden, clear the screen before final boot

Clear away the countdown message before actually running the final
boot.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agopxelinux: allow chainloading from gpxelinux
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:25:37 +0000 (15:25 -0800)]
pxelinux: allow chainloading from gpxelinux

Use the new "exit hook" functionality in gPXE to allow NBP
chainloading from gpxelinux.0.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agopxelinux: stop using the PXE-provided stack
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:20:19 +0000 (15:20 -0800)]
pxelinux: stop using the PXE-provided stack

Using the PXE-provided stack complicates things tremendously for gPXE
chainloading support, plus we are hostages to the stack size set up by
the PXE stack (1.5K by spec.)

Use a private stack instead, as the fsc branch already does.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agogpxelinux: use the cached DHCP packet
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 06:53:18 +0000 (22:53 -0800)]
gpxelinux: use the cached DHCP packet

gPXE 1.0.0 has support for using the cached DHCP packet from the
previous PXE stack, so do that rather than doing another DHCP.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agoUpdate gPXE to version 1.0.0
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 06:41:00 +0000 (22:41 -0800)]
Update gPXE to version 1.0.0

14 years agomkdiskimage: add option -s to make a sparse image syslinux-3.85-pre4
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:41:43 +0000 (15:41 -0800)]
mkdiskimage: add option -s to make a sparse image

It is often fine to have a sparse file for the output image, so add an
-s option to generate a sparse image.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
14 years agocore: set QUIET_FLAG if we load Linux "quiet"
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:45:23 +0000 (09:45 -0800)]
core: set QUIET_FLAG if we load Linux "quiet"

If we see the "quiet" flag for the Linux kernel, also suppress the
early Linux kernel messages; for people who want a completely clean
boot.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>