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2019-11-04cpu/qemu-x86: Add x86_64 bootblock supportPatrick Rudolph
Add support for x86_64 bootblock on qemu. Introduce a new approach to long mode support. The previous patch set generated page tables at runtime and placed them in heap. The new approach places the page tables in memory mapped ROM. Introduce a new tool called pgtblgen that creates x86 long mode compatible page tables and writes those to a file. The file is included into the CBFS and placed at a predefined offset. Add assembly code to load the page tables, based on a Kconfig symbol and enter long in bootblock. The code can be easily ported to real hardware bootblock. Tested on qemu q35. Change-Id: Iec92c6cea464c97c18a0811e2e91bc22133ace42 Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/35680 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
2019-07-02cpu/x86/pae/pgtbl: Add memset with PAEPatrick Rudolph
To clear all DRAM on x86_32, add a new method that uses PAE to access more than 32bit of address space. Add Documentation as well. Required for clearing all system memory as part of security API. Tested on wedge100s: Takes less than 2 seconds to clear 8GiB of DRAM. Tested on P8H61M-Pro: Takes less than 1 second to clear 4GiB of DRAM. Change-Id: I00f7ecf87b5c9227a9d58a0b61eecc38007e1a57 Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31549 Reviewed-by: Philipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki@gmail.com> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
2018-12-19Documentation: Add arch x86Patrick Rudolph
Describe state and assuptions made about x86_64 support. Change-Id: I308a09b0eac269afd30df95ed3ea195238a6cfbe Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/30056 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>