switch-coreboot/util/x86emu/vm86_gdt.c
Ronald G. Minnich 61cd5ae455 This discussion is too useful to lose.
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 18.02.2008 23:55, Marc Jones wrote:
>> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>> it seems that executing VSA requires vm86 to be useful. Since we
>>> unconditionally execute the VSA, we should unconditionally require 
vm86
>>> support (PCI_OPTION_ROM_RUN_VM86) via Kconfig for Geode targets. Not
>>> doing so will either cause compile failures or runtime failures.
>>>
>>> Adding
>>> select PCI_OPTION_ROM_RUN_VM86
>>> below
>>> config CPU_AMD_GEODELX
>>> did not work out for me.
>> Sorry I missed this.
>>
>> VSA requires the GDT that is in vm86.c. VSA loads similar to an 
option
>> ROM so the loader does go into VM86 mode. All the other stuff like
>> interrupt support and PCI BIOS isn't needed by VSA. I think that the
>> GDT at the top of vm86.c can be moved to a header file, gdt.h or
>> something like that.
>
> northbridge/amd/geodelx/vsmsetup.c uses
> util/x86emu/vm86.c:setup_realmode_idt() but it seems most/all of the
> setup there is not needed at all for VSA. Pulling in 
setup_realmode_idt
> pulls in the rest of vm86 through direct and indirect dependencies.
>
>> Care to make a patch? :)
>

I am also leaning towards removing the IDT for VSA init. There is a risk
if either an exception happens or a software interrupt is used you will
get unexpected results. What probably happens is that you jump off to
something that will eventually cause a triple fault and reboot. You may
think this is bad (and it is) but it is the same risk that coreboot runs
today. If coreboot had a generic IDT to handle exceptions, VSA init
would use the same IDT. Note that hardware INT (even timers) should
never happen as they are always masked.

I have built with no PCI_OPTION_ROM_RUN_VM86 and run this to filo.
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Marc







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Marc Jones
Senior Firmware Engineer
(970) 226-9684 Office
mailto:Marc.Jones@amd.com
http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors

Reduce the amount of compilation errors for Geode LX targets if x86emu
or no emulation is selected instead of vm86.
Factor out GDT code from vm86.c to vm86_gdt.c
Remove IDT setup for VSA init.

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Signed-of-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@amd.com>

This has booted to runlevel 3 and the ethernet works fine. 
Acked-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>




git-svn-id: svn://coreboot.org/repository/coreboot-v3@613 f3766cd6-281f-0410-b1cd-43a5c92072e9
2008-02-21 05:20:14 +00:00

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/*
* Erik Arjan Hendriks <hendriks@lanl.gov>
* Copyright (C) 2000 Scyld.
* Copyright (C) 2000 Scyld Computing Corporation
* Copyright (C) 2001 University of California. LA-CC Number 01-67.
* Copyright (C) 2005 Nick.Barker9@btinternet.com
* Copyright (C) 2007 coresystems GmbH
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*
*/
/* Declare a temporary global descriptor table -
* necessary because the core part of the bios
* no longer sets up any 16 bit segments
*/
__asm__ (
/* pointer to original gdt */
" .globl gdtarg\n"
"gdtarg: \n"
" .word gdt_limit \n"
" .long gdtptr \n"
/* compute the table limit */
"__mygdt_limit = __mygdt_end - __mygdt - 1 \n"
" .globl __mygdtaddr\n"
"__mygdtaddr: \n"
" .word __mygdt_limit \n"
" .long __mygdt \n"
" .globl __mygdt\n"
"__mygdt: \n"
/* selgdt 0, unused */
" .word 0x0000, 0x0000 \n"
" .byte 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 \n"
/* selgdt 8, unused */
" .word 0x0000, 0x0000 \n"
" .byte 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 \n"
/* selgdt 0x10, flat code segment */
" .word 0xffff, 0x0000 \n"
" .byte 0x00, 0x9b, 0xcf, 0x00 \n"
/* selgdt 0x18, flat data segment */
" .word 0xffff, 0x0000 \n"
" .byte 0x00, 0x93, 0xcf, 0x00 \n"
/* selgdt 0x20, unused */
" .word 0x0000, 0x0000 \n"
" .byte 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 \n"
/* selgdt 0x28 16-bit 64k code at 0x00000000 */
" .word 0xffff, 0x0000 \n"
" .byte 0, 0x9a, 0, 0 \n"
/* selgdt 0x30 16-bit 64k data at 0x00000000 */
" .word 0xffff, 0x0000 \n"
" .byte 0, 0x92, 0, 0 \n"
"__mygdt_end: \n"
/* FIXME: This does probably not belong here */
" .globl idtarg\n"
"idtarg:\n"
" .word _idt_end - _idt - 1\n" /* limit */
" .long _idt\n"
" .word 0\n"
"_idt:\n"
" .fill 20, 8, 0\n" // # idt is unitiailzed
"_idt_end:\n"
/* Declare a pointer to where our idt is going to be i.e. at mem zero */
" .globl __myidt\n"
"__myidt: \n"
/* 16-bit limit */
" .word 1023 \n"
/* 24-bit base */
" .long 0 \n"
" .word 0 \n"
);