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Masked ROMs are the silent killers of boot speed on devices without
memory-mapped SPI flash. They often contain awfully slow SPI drivers
(presumably bit-banged) that take hundreds of milliseconds to load our
bootblock, and every extra kilobyte of bootblock size has a hugely
disproportionate impact on boot speed. The coreboot timestamps can never
show that component, but it impacts our users all the same.
This patch tries to alleviate that issue a bit by allowing us to
compress the bootblock with LZ4, which can cut its size down to nearly
half. Of course, masked ROMs usually don't come with decompression
algorithms built in, so we need to introduce a little decompression stub
that can decompress the rest of the bootblock. This is done by creating
a new "decompressor" stage which runs before the bootblock, but includes
the compressed bootblock code in its data section. It needs to be as
small as possible to get a real benefit from this approach, which means
no device drivers, no console output, no exception handling, etc.
Besides the decompression algorithm itself we only include the timer
driver so that we can measure the boot speed impact of decompression. On
ARM and ARM64 systems, we also need to give SoC code a chance to
initialize the MMU, since running decompression without MMU is
prohibitively slow on these architectures.
This feature is implemented for ARM and ARM64 architectures for now,
although most of it is architecture-independent and it should be
relatively simple to port to other platforms where a masked ROM loads
the bootblock into SRAM. It is also supposed to be a clean starting
point from which later optimizations can hopefully cut down the
decompression stub size (currently ~4K on RK3399) a bit more.
NOTE: Bootblock compression is not for everyone. Possible side effects
include trying to run LZ4 on CPUs that come out of reset extremely
underclocked or enabling this too early in SoC bring-up and getting
frustrated trying to find issues in an undebuggable environment. Ask
your SoC vendor if bootblock compression is right for you.
Change-Id: I0dc1cad9ae7508892e477739e743cd1afb5945e8
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/26340
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
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This patch adds more parameters to bootblock_main_with_timestamp() to
give callers the opportunity to add additional timestamps that were
recorded in the platform-specific initialization phase.
Change-Id: Idf3a0fcf5aee88a33747afc69e055b95bd38750c
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/26339
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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Instead of writing out '__attribute__((weak))' use a shorter form.
Change-Id: If418a1d55052780077febd2d8f2089021f414b91
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/25767
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@chromium.org>
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Gather related code in the new file drivers/pc80/rtc/mc146818rtc_boot.c,
call sanitize_cmos() from C environment bootblock.
Change-Id: Ia5c64de208a5986299c0508d0e11eeb8473deef1
Signed-off-by: Nico Huber <nico.huber@secunet.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/20768
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
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Fix the following warning detected by checkpatch.pl:
WARNING: storage class should be at the beginning of the declaration
TEST=Build and run on Galileo Gen2
Change-Id: I7d3135466634a4bb84dcef16dbd68754f8d8d6c2
Signed-off-by: Lee Leahy <Leroy.P.Leahy@intel.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/18760
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
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cmos_post_init() is called in src/arch/x86/bootblock_simple.c, and
that function is reponsible for bootstrapping the cmos post register
contents. Without this function being called none of the cmos post
functionality works correctly. Therefore, add a call to lib/bootblock.c
which the C_ENVIRONMENT_BOOTBLOCK SoCs use.
BUG=chrome-os-partner:61546
Change-Id: I2e3519f2f3f2c28e5cba26b5811f1eb0c2a90572
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/18043
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
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Add asmlinkage to bootblock_main_with_timestamp so that it may be called
directly from the assembly code.
TEST=Build for Amenia and Galileo Gen2
Change-Id: Iefb8e5c1ddce2ec495b9272966b595d5adcebc1c
Signed-off-by: Lee Leahy <leroy.p.leahy@intel.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/15125
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
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This is useful, for example, in the bootblock, when a timestamp is
available which predates the call to main() in lib/bootblock.c
Change-Id: I17bb0add9f2d8721504b2e534dd6904d1201989c
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <alexandrux.gagniuc@intel.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14862
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
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There was no 'early' call into the SoC code prior to console
getting initialized. Not having this enforces the mainboard to
drive the setup of the console which typically just ends up
calling into the SoC code. Provide a SoC early init call
to handle this without having to duplicate the same code
in mainboards utilizing the same SoC.
Change-Id: Ia233dc3ae89a77df284d6d5cf5b2b051ad3be089
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/13791
Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Andrey Petrov <andrey.petrov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
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This patch generalizes the approach previously used for ARM32
TTB_SUBTABLES to "auto-detect" whether a certain region was defined in
memlayout.ld. This allows us to get rid of the explicit Kconfig for the
TIMESTAMP region, reducing configuration redundancy and avoiding
confusion when setting up future boards.
(Removing armv4/bootblock_simple.c because it references this Kconfig
and it is a dead file that I just forgot to remove in CL:12076.)
BRANCH=None
BUG=None
TEST=Booted Oak and confirmed that all pre-RAM timestamps are still
there. Built Nyan and Falco.
Change-Id: I557a4b263018511d17baa4177963130a97ea310a
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/13652
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
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When we first added ARM support to coreboot, it was clear that the
bootblock would need to do vastly different tasks than on x86, so we
moved its main logic under arch/. Now that we have several more
architectures, it turns out (as with so many things lately) that x86 is
really the odd one out, and all the others are trying to do pretty much
the same thing. This has already caused maintenance issues as the ARM32
bootblock developed and less-mature architectures were left behind with
old cruft.
This patch tries to address that problem by centralizing that logic
under lib/ for use by all architectures/SoCs that don't explicitly
opt-out (with the slightly adapted existing BOOTBLOCK_CUSTOM option).
This works great out of the box for ARM32 and ARM64. It could probably
be easily applied to MIPS and RISCV as well, but I don't have any of
those boards to test so I'll mark them as BOOTBLOCK_CUSTOM for now and
leave that for later cleanup.
BRANCH=None
BUG=None
TEST=Built Jerry and Falco, booted Oak.
Change-Id: Ibbf727ad93651e388aef20e76f03f5567f9860cb
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/12076
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
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