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This patch adds a mechanism to set aside a region of cache-coherent (i.e. usually uncached) virtual memory, which can be used to communicate with DMA devices without automatic cache snooping (common on ARM) without the need of explicit flush/invalidation instructions in the driver code. This works by setting aside said region in the (board-specific) page table setup, as exemplary done in this patch for the Snow and Pit boards. It uses a new mechanism for adding board-specific Coreboot table entries to describe this region in an entry with the LB_DMA tag. Libpayload's memory allocator is enhanced to be able to operate on distinct types/regions of memory. It provides dma_malloc() and dma_memalign() functions for use in drivers, which by default just operate on the same heap as their traditional counterparts. However, if the Coreboot table parsing code finds a CB_DMA section, further requests through the dma_xxx() functions will return memory from the region described therein instead. Change-Id: Ia9c249249e936bbc3eb76e7b4822af2230ffb186 Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/167155 (cherry picked from commit d142ccdcd902a9d6ab4d495fbe6cbe85c61a5f01) Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6622 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> |
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README
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libpayload README
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libpayload is a minimal library to support standalone payloads
that can be booted with firmware like coreboot. It handles the setup
code, and provides common C library symbols such as malloc() and printf().
Note: This is _not_ a standard library for use with an operating system,
rather it's only useful for coreboot payload development!
See http://coreboot.org for details on coreboot.
Installation
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$ git clone http://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot.git
$ cd coreboot/payloads/libpayload
$ make menuconfig
$ make
$ sudo make install (optional, will install into /opt per default)
As libpayload is for 32bit x86 systems only, you might have to install the
32bit libgcc version, otherwise your payloads will fail to compile.
On Debian systems you'd do 'apt-get install gcc-multilib' for example.
Usage
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Here's an example of a very simple payload (hello.c) and how to build it:
#include <libpayload.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
Building the payload using the 'lpgcc' compiler wrapper:
$ lpgcc -o hello.elf hello.c
Please see the sample/ directory for details.
Website and Mailing List
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The main website is http://www.coreboot.org/Libpayload.
For additional information, patches, and discussions, please join the
coreboot mailing list at http://coreboot.org/Mailinglist, where most
libpayload developers are subscribed.
Copyright and License
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See LICENSES.