[ipxe-devel] UEFI efi_image_exec path

[Niket Kandya]

Hi,

I was wondering if any of you guys ran into/worked around this problem.

Following my previous query about UEFI image execution,
I enabled snponly.efi image execution, partly from Jarrod's patch and
partly my own.

My addition there was:
If you try to run 2 efi images 1 after the other, the second image wont
execute because protocol installation will fail on the device handle as
protocols are already installed. So I added a check before installation in
efi_image_exec in efi_file_install and efi_download_install. And similarly
to uninstall only when it was installed for that image.

To simulate this easily, you can just try autoboot from the shell as the
first command and then after you have reached the shell AGAIN!, chain your
normal efi image.

However I ran into a wierd issue, after the autoboot, when i try to load an
efi image, the cwuri is changed to the one from previous autoboot.


Thanks and Regards,
Niket Kandya,
Graduate Student CS,
Columbia University, NY


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Jarrod Johnson
<jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com>wrote:

> If trying to use snponly.eif, the following two patches will help:
>
> https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/73d1ff05b058a2507fda0119825715fa2253d722
> and
>
> https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/f411dcea1ce12ddcdfafa3fa2a89566a16f86bce
>
> I still have been meaning to make snponly.efi work from non chian booted
> scenarios (e.g. local vfat) but snponly.efi works fine with these two
> patches.
>
> Perhaps one day Michael will have spare time to double check my work, make
> sure I did it right, probably fudge it a tad, and merge it.  In the
> meantime it's been working swimmingly for me.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Niket Kandya <niketkandya at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to chain boot an efi image.
>> My setup is all like traditional PXE with snponly.efi as the PXE file.
>>
>> While chainloading an EFI file, I always fail at last_opened_snpdev() as
>> it internally tries to find a PCI SNP device which it does not find. Is the
>> problem here itself ??
>>
>> Or what I understood that this can be the case as this is a software
>> interface with no PCI address. To fix that I tried installing the protocols
>> onto a new handle (initially NULL) and then loading the image, however the
>> image never finds any files to read. So I tried doing this on the
>> efi_image_handle itself. And this failed again with none of these protocols
>> even being found on the device handle of the new image. I also tried using
>> any efi_pci_device, but none is found.
>>
>> Any suggestions??
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Niket Kandya,
>>
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