coreboot-kgpe-d16/src/commonlib
Aaron Durbin 7f8afe0631 arch/x86: introduce postcar stage/phase
Certain chipsets don't have a memory-mapped boot media
so their code execution for stages prior to DRAM initialization
is backed by SRAM or cache-as-ram. The postcar stage/phase
handles the cache-as-ram situation where in order to tear down
cache-as-ram one needs to be executing out of a backing
store that isn't transient. By current definition, cache-as-ram
is volatile and tearing it down leads to its contents disappearing.
Therefore provide a shim layer, postcar, that's loaded into
memory and executed which does 2 things:

1. Tears down cache-as-ram with a chipset helper function.
2. Loads and runs ramstage.

Because those 2 things are executed out of ram there's no issue
of the code's backing store while executing the code that
tears down cache-as-ram. The current implementation makes no
assumption regarding cacheability of the DRAM itself. If the
chipset code wishes to cache DRAM for loading of the postcar
stage/phase then it's also up to the chipset to handle any
coherency issues pertaining to cache-as-ram destruction.

Change-Id: Ia58efdadd0b48f20cfe7de2f49ab462306c3a19b
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14140
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
2016-03-23 14:24:30 +01:00
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include/commonlib arch/x86: introduce postcar stage/phase 2016-03-23 14:24:30 +01:00
Makefile.inc arch/x86: introduce postcar stage/phase 2016-03-23 14:24:30 +01:00
cbfs.c commonlib: Add function to hash contents of a CBFS region. 2016-01-06 01:12:04 +01:00
fsp1_1_relocate.c commonlib: move uefi includes out of commonlib includes 2016-02-02 14:27:03 +01:00
lz4.c.inc cbfs: Add LZ4 in-place decompression support for pre-RAM stages 2016-02-22 21:38:37 +01:00
lz4_wrapper.c lz4_wrapper: Use __asm__ rather than asm. 2016-03-05 00:56:53 +01:00
mem_pool.c commonlib: Prepare code to be included in cbfstool builds. 2016-01-06 01:11:32 +01:00
region.c commonlib: Prepare code to be included in cbfstool builds. 2016-01-06 01:11:32 +01:00