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2013-03-19rmodule: add ramstage supportAaron Durbin
Coreboot's ramstage defines certain sections/symbols in its fixed static linker script. It uses these sections/symbols for locating the drivers as well as its own program information. Add these sections and symbols to the rmodule linker script so that ramstage can be linked as an rmodule. These sections and symbols are a noop for other rmodule-linked programs, but they are vital to the ramstage. Also add a comment in coreboot_ram.ld to mirror any changes made there to the rmodule linker script. Change-Id: Ib9885a00e987aef0ee1ae34f1d73066e15bca9b1 Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2786 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com>
2013-03-18rmodule: add rmodules class and new typeAaron Durbin
Add an rmodules class so that there are default rules for compiling files that will be linked by the rmodule linker. Also, add a new type for SIPI vectors. Change-Id: Ided9e15577b34aff34dc23e5e16791c607caf399 Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2751 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
2013-03-18rmodule: add 16 bytes of paddingAaron Durbin
There is a plan to utlize rmodules for loading ramstage as a relocatable module. However, the rmodule header may change. In order to provide some wiggle room for changing the contents of the rmodule header add some padding. This won't stop the need for coordinating properly between the romstage loader that may be in readonly flash and rmodule header fields. But it will provide for a way to make certain assumptions about alignment of the rmodule's program when the rmodule is compressed in the flash. Change-Id: I9ac5cf495c0bce494e7eaa3bd2f2bd39889b4c52 Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2749 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
2013-03-18lib: add rmodule supportAaron Durbin
A rmodule is short for relocation module. Relocaiton modules are standalone programs. These programs are linked at address 0 as a shared object with a special linker script that maintains the relocation entries for the object. These modules can then be embedded as a raw binary (objcopy -O binary) to be loaded at any location desired. Initially, the only arch support is for x86. All comments below apply to x86 specific properties. The intial user of this support would be for SMM handlers since those handlers sometimes need to be located at a dynamic address (e.g. TSEG region). The relocation entries are currently Elf32_Rel. They are 8 bytes large, and the entries are not necessarily in sorted order. An future optimization would be to have a tool convert the unsorted relocations into just sorted offsets. This would reduce the size of the blob produced after being processed. Essentialy, 8 bytes per relocation meta entry would reduce to 4 bytes. Change-Id: I2236dcb66e9d2b494ce2d1ae40777c62429057ef Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2692 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>