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This patch parallelizes the AP startup for Haswell-based devices. It does not touch the generic secondary startup code. Instead it provides its own MP support matching up with the Haswell BWG. It seemed to be too much trouble to support the old startup way and this new way. Because of that parallel loading is the only thing supported. A couple of things to note: 1. Micrcode needs to be loaded twice. Once before MTRR and caching is enabled. And a second time after SMM relocation. 2. The sipi_vector is entirely self-contained. Once it is loaded and written back to RAM the APs do not access memory outside of the sipi_vector load location until a sync up in ramstage. 3. SMM relocation is kicked off by an IPI to self w/ SMI set as the destination mode. The following are timings from cbmem with dev mode disabled and recovery mode enabled to boot directly into the kernel. This was done on the baskingridge CRB with a 4-core 8-thread CPU and 2 DIMMs 1GiB each. The kernel has console enabled on the serial port. Entry 70 is the device initialization, and that is where the APs are brought up. With these two examples it looks to shave off ~200 ms of boot time. Before: 1:55,382 2:57,606 (2,223) 3:3,108,983 (3,051,377) 4:3,110,084 (1,101) 8:3,113,109 (3,024) 9:3,156,694 (43,585) 10:3,156,815 (120) 30:3,157,110 (295) 40:3,158,180 (1,069) 50:3,160,157 (1,977) 60:3,160,366 (208) 70:4,221,044 (1,060,677) 75:4,221,062 (18) 80:4,227,185 (6,122) 90:4,227,669 (484) 99:4,265,596 (37,927) 1000:4,267,822 (2,225) 1001:4,268,507 (685) 1002:4,268,780 (272) 1003:4,398,676 (129,896) 1004:4,398,979 (303) 1100:7,477,601 (3,078,621) 1101:7,480,210 (2,608) After: 1:49,518 2:51,778 (2,259) 3:3,081,186 (3,029,407) 4:3,082,252 (1,066) 8:3,085,137 (2,884) 9:3,130,339 (45,202) 10:3,130,518 (178) 30:3,130,544 (26) 40:3,131,125 (580) 50:3,133,023 (1,897) 60:3,133,278 (255) 70:4,009,259 (875,980) 75:4,009,273 (13) 80:4,015,947 (6,674) 90:4,016,430 (482) 99:4,056,265 (39,835) 1000:4,058,492 (2,226) 1001:4,059,176 (684) 1002:4,059,450 (273) 1003:4,189,333 (129,883) 1004:4,189,770 (436) 1100:7,262,358 (3,072,588) 1101:7,263,926 (1,567) Booted the baskingridge board as noted above. Also analyzed serial messages with pcserial enabled. Change-Id: Ifedc7f787953647c228b11afdb725686e38c4098 Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2779 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> |
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README
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload. With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required. coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS. Payloads -------- After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any desired "payload" can be started by coreboot. See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads. Supported Hardware ------------------ coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards. For details please consult: * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices Build Requirements ------------------ * gcc / g++ * make Optional: * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation) * iasl (for targets with ACPI support) * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets) * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig') * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers) Building coreboot ----------------- Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details. Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware ------------------------------------------------ If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run coreboot virtually in QEMU. Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details. Website and Mailing List ------------------------ Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website: http://www.coreboot.org You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list: http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist Copyright and License --------------------- The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details. coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)", and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual source files for details. This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.