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authorMichael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>2020-06-10 22:52:11 +0100
committerMichael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>2020-06-10 23:01:23 +0100
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treee5d911d39a16cadf48efd9af28a04afdf6644b77
parent6a6def775db00a88fa800ea4d08e6519539dacde (diff)
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[efi] Attempt to connect our driver directly if ConnectController fails
Some platforms (observed with an AMI BIOS on an Apollo Lake system) will spuriously fail the call to ConnectController() when the UEFI network stack is disabled. This appears to be a BIOS bug that also affects attempts to connect any non-iPXE driver to the NIC controller handle via the UEFI shell "connect" utility. Work around this BIOS bug by falling back to calling our efi_driver_start() directly if the call to ConnectController() fails. This bypasses any BIOS policy in terms of deciding which driver to connect but still cooperates with the UEFI driver model in terms of handle ownership, since the use of EFI_OPEN_PROTOCOL_BY_DRIVER ensures that the BIOS is aware of our ownership claim. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
-rw-r--r--src/interface/efi/efi_driver.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/interface/efi/efi_driver.c b/src/interface/efi/efi_driver.c
index f6038e5..760ee41 100644
--- a/src/interface/efi/efi_driver.c
+++ b/src/interface/efi/efi_driver.c
@@ -474,7 +474,16 @@ static int efi_driver_connect ( EFI_HANDLE device ) {
rc = -EEFI_CONNECT ( efirc );
DBGC ( device, "EFIDRV %s could not connect new drivers: "
"%s\n", efi_handle_name ( device ), strerror ( rc ) );
- return rc;
+ DBGC ( device, "EFIDRV %s connecting driver directly\n",
+ efi_handle_name ( device ) );
+ if ( ( efirc = efi_driver_start ( &efi_driver_binding, device,
+ NULL ) ) != 0 ) {
+ rc = -EEFI_CONNECT ( efirc );
+ DBGC ( device, "EFIDRV %s could not connect driver "
+ "directly: %s\n", efi_handle_name ( device ),
+ strerror ( rc ) );
+ return rc;
+ }
}
DBGC2 ( device, "EFIDRV %s after connecting:\n",
efi_handle_name ( device ) );