Any interest in this patch set? Thanks, Andrew
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 12:42 PM Andrew Hamilton <adham...@gmail.com> wrote: > Implement a virtio-net driver (using an in-built virtio-pci > driver) to allow GRUB to have network support in virtual > environments such as Qemu without a dependency on the BIOS, > UEFI, etc. This provides a virtio-net driver implementation > targetting the 1.x virtio specification (using just the > minimal required features of the specification to get this > working in GRUB). > > Also add a net_http_transfer_test to provide an integration > test of the new driver running under Qemu and also exercise > some of the network stack code as well. > > Right now this implementation has been tested on i386-pc and > x86_64-efi, so the module is only built for those architectures. > With additional architecture testing, this can likely be enabled > on other configurations as well. > > For the user perspective, this patch will provide GRUB network > capability in a wider variety of virtualized configurations. It > will also improve test coverage of the network code in GRUB. This > driver should provide a basis for building upon this initial small > test for the network code in the future. > > Andrew Hamilton (3): > docs: Document Module virtionet > net: Implement virtio-net Driver for Qemu in GRUB > tests: Add net_http_transfer_test > > .gitignore | 2 + > Makefile.util.def | 12 + > docs/grub.texi | 16 + > grub-core/Makefile.core.def | 12 + > grub-core/net/drivers/virtio/virtionet.c | 1000 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > tests/net_http_transfer_test.in | 107 +++ > tests/util/grub-shell.in | 3 + > tests/util/qemu-linkup.in | 21 + > 8 files changed, 1173 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 grub-core/net/drivers/virtio/virtionet.c > create mode 100755 tests/net_http_transfer_test.in > create mode 100755 tests/util/qemu-linkup.in > > -- > 2.39.5 > >
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