Several keyboard layouts define ASCII characters as accessible only
via the AltGr modifier. Add support for this modifier to ensure that
all ASCII characters are accessible.
Experiments suggest that the BIOS console is likely to fail to
generate ASCII characters when the AltGr key is pressed. Work around
this limitation by accepting LShift+RShift (which will definitely
produce an ASCII character) as a synonym for AltGr.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Handle Ctrl and CapsLock key modifiers within key_remap(), to provide
consistent behaviour across different console types.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The original EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_PROTOCOL is not technically
required to handle the use of the Ctrl key, and the long-obsolete EFI
1.10 specification lists only backspace, tab, linefeed, and carriage
return as required. Some particularly brain-dead vendor UEFI firmware
implementations dutifully put in the extra effort of ensuring that all
other control characters (such as Ctrl-C) are impossible to type via
EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_PROTOCOL.
Current versions of the UEFI specification mandate that the console
input handle must support both EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_PROTOCOL and
EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_EX_PROTOCOL, the latter of which at least
provides access to modifier key state.
Unlike EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_PROTOCOL, the pointer to the
EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_EX_PROTOCOL instance does not appear within the
EFI system table and must therefore be opened explicitly. The UEFI
specification provides no safe way to do so, since we cannot open the
handle BY_DRIVER or BY_CHILD_CONTROLLER and so nothing guarantees that
this pointer will remain valid for the lifetime of iPXE. We must
simply hope that no UEFI firmware implementation ever discovers a
motivation for reinstalling the EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_EX_PROTOCOL
instance.
Use EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_EX_PROTOCOL if available, falling back to
the existing EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_PROTOCOL otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
On some older EFI 1.10 implementations (observed with an old iMac), we
must use the (now obsolete) EFI_CONSOLE_CONTROL_PROTOCOL to switch the
console into text mode.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Exploit the redefinition of iPXE error codes to include a "platform
error code" to allow for meaningful conversion of EFI_STATUS values to
iPXE errors and vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add the concept of a "console usage", such as "standard output" or
"debug messages". Allow usages to be associated with each console
independently. For example, to send debugging output via the serial
port, while preventing it from appearing on the local console:
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL
#define CONSOLE_PCBIOS ( CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL & ~CONSOLE_USAGE_DEBUG )
If no usages are explicitly specified, then a default set of usages
will be applied. For example:
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL
will have the same affect as
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
EFI_STATUS is defined as an INTN, which maps to UINT32 (i.e. unsigned
int) on i386 and UINT64 (i.e. unsigned long) on x86_64. This would
require a cast each time the error status is printed.
Add efi_strerror() to avoid this ickiness and simultaneously enable
prettier reporting of EFI status codes.
This brings us in to line with Linux definitions, and also simplifies
adding x86_64 support since both platforms have 2-byte shorts, 4-byte
ints and 8-byte long longs.
We have EFI APIs for CPU I/O, PCI I/O, timers, console I/O, user
access and user memory allocation.
EFI executables are created using the vanilla GNU toolchain, with the
EXE header handcrafted in assembly and relocations generated by a
custom efilink utility.
Michael Brown
Curtis Larsen
Michael Brown