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Michael Brown e71b83b22b [interface] Expand object interface to allow for polymorphic interfaces
We have several types of object interface at present (data-xfer, job
control, name resolution), and there is some duplication of
functionality between them.  For example, job_done(), job_kill() and
xfer_close() are almost isomorphic to each other.

This updated version of the object interface mechanism allows for each
interface to export an arbitrary list of supported operations.
Advantages include:

  Operations methods now receive a pointer to the object, rather than
  a pointer to the interface.  This allows an object to, for example,
  implement a single close() method that can handle close() operations
  from any of its exposed interfaces.

  The close() operation is implemented as a generic operation (rather
  than having specific variants for data-xfer, job control, etc.).
  This will allow functions such as monojob_wait() to be used to wait
  for e.g.  a name resolution to complete.

  The amount of boilerplate code required in objects is reduced, not
  least because it is no longer necessary to include per-interface
  methods that simply use container_of() to derive a pointer to the
  object and then tail-call to a common per-object method.

  The cost of adding new operations is reduced; adding a new data-xfer
  operation such as stat() no longer incurs the penalty of adding a
  .stat member to the operations table of all existing data-xfer
  interfaces.

The data-xfer, job control and name resolution interfaces have not yet
been updated to use the new interface mechanism, but the code will
still compile and run.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2010-06-22 14:34:58 +01:00
contrib [errdb] Add errdb.pl script to build error database 2010-05-31 14:22:24 +01:00
src [interface] Expand object interface to allow for polymorphic interfaces 2010-06-22 14:34:58 +01:00
COPYING Initial revision 2005-05-17 16:44:57 +00:00
COPYRIGHTS [build] Rename gPXE to iPXE 2010-04-19 23:43:39 +01:00
README [doc] Re-add README file 2010-05-28 00:03:47 +01:00

iPXE README File

Quick start guide:

   cd src
   make

For any more detailed instructions, see http://ipxe.org