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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/src/arch/i386/coreboot_ram.ld b/src/arch/i386/coreboot_ram.ld
index 3915f31fd0..67c78cecbc 100644
--- a/src/arch/i386/coreboot_ram.ld
+++ b/src/arch/i386/coreboot_ram.ld
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
/*
* Memory map:
*
- * CONFIG_RAMBASE
+ * CONFIG_RAMBASE : text segment
+ * : rodata segment
* : data segment
* : bss segment
- * : heap
* : stack
+ * : heap
*/
/*
* Bootstrap code for the STPC Consumer
@@ -17,10 +18,8 @@
* Rewritten by Eric Biederman
* 2005.12 yhlu add coreboot_ram cross the vga font buffer handling
*/
-/*
- * We use ELF as output format. So that we can
- * debug the code in some form.
- */
+
+/* We use ELF as output format. So that we can debug the code in some form. */
INCLUDE ldoptions
ENTRY(_start)
@@ -28,9 +27,8 @@ ENTRY(_start)
SECTIONS
{
. = CONFIG_RAMBASE;
- /*
- * First we place the code and read only data (typically const declared).
- * This get placed in rom.
+ /* First we place the code and read only data (typically const declared).
+ * This could theoretically be placed in rom.
*/
.text : {
_text = .;
@@ -39,6 +37,7 @@ SECTIONS
. = ALIGN(16);
_etext = .;
}
+
.rodata : {
_rodata = .;
. = ALIGN(4);
@@ -54,17 +53,14 @@ SECTIONS
ecpu_drivers = . ;
*(.rodata)
*(.rodata.*)
- /*
- * kevinh/Ispiri - Added an align, because the objcopy tool
+ /* kevinh/Ispiri - Added an align, because the objcopy tool
* incorrectly converts sections that are not long word aligned.
- * This breaks the coreboot.rom target.
*/
. = ALIGN(4);
_erodata = .;
}
- /*
- * After the code we place initialized data (typically initialized
+ /* After the code we place initialized data (typically initialized
* global variables). This gets copied into ram by startup code.
* __data_start and __data_end shows where in ram this should be placed,
* whereas __data_loadstart and __data_loadend shows where in rom to
@@ -76,18 +72,7 @@ SECTIONS
_edata = .;
}
- .sdata : {
- _SDA_BASE_ = .;
- *(.sdata)
- }
-
- .sdata2 : {
- _SDA2_BASE_ = .;
- *(.sdata2)
- }
-
- /*
- * bss does not contain data, it is just a space that should be zero
+ /* bss does not contain data, it is just a space that should be zero
* initialized on startup. (typically uninitialized global variables)
* crt0.S fills between _bss and _ebss with zeroes.
*/
@@ -99,6 +84,11 @@ SECTIONS
}
_ebss = .;
_end = .;
+
+ /* coreboot really "ends" here. Only heap and stack are placed after
+ * this line.
+ */
+
. = ALIGN(CONFIG_STACK_SIZE);
_stack = .;
@@ -107,6 +97,7 @@ SECTIONS
. += CONFIG_MAX_CPUS*CONFIG_STACK_SIZE;
}
_estack = .;
+
_heap = .;
.heap . : {
/* Reserve CONFIG_HEAP_SIZE bytes for the heap */
@@ -115,18 +106,33 @@ SECTIONS
}
_eheap = .;
+ /* Some assertions to print human readable errors for certain linker
+ * error scenarios.
+ */
+
/* Avoid running into 0xa0000-0xfffff */
_bogus = ASSERT(CONFIG_RAMBASE >= 0x100000 || _eheap < 0xa0000, "Please move RAMBASE to 1MB");
- /* The ram segment
- * This is all address of the memory resident copy of coreboot.
+ /* The ram segment. This includes all memory used by the memory
+ * resident copy of coreboot, except the tables that are produced on
+ * the fly, but including stack and heap.
*/
_ram_seg = _text;
_eram_seg = _eheap;
- _bogus = ASSERT( ( _eram_seg < (CONFIG_RAMTOP)) , "please increase CONFIG_RAMTOP");
+ /* CONFIG_RAMTOP is the upper address of cached memory (among other
+ * things). We must not exceed beyond that address, there be dragons.
+ */
+ _bogus = ASSERT( ( _eram_seg < (CONFIG_RAMTOP)) , "Please increase CONFIG_RAMTOP");
+
+ /* This rule is only good for the few broken targets that still live
+ * below 1MB per default. Those are the Geode and VIA targets that come
+ * with their own version of real mode switches that can't live above
+ * 1MB. Once these are fixed, this rule should go away.
+ */
+ _bogus = ASSERT( !((CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA || CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN || CONFIG_VGA_ROM_RUN || CONFIG_HAVE_SMI_HANDLER) && ((_ram_seg<0xa0000) && (_eram_seg>0xa0000))), "Please increase CONFIG_RAMTOP and if still fail, try to set CONFIG_RAMBASE to 1M");
- _bogus = ASSERT( !((CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA || CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN) && ((_ram_seg<0xa0000) && (_eram_seg>0xa0000))) , "please increase CONFIG_RAMTOP and if still fail, try to set CONFIG_RAMBASE more than 1M");
+ /* Discard the sections we don't need/want */
/DISCARD/ : {
*(.comment)