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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/boot/header.S, branch v3.4.78</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x86, efi: EFI boot stub support</title>
<updated>2011-12-12T22:26:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-12T21:27:52+00:00</published>
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There is currently a large divide between kernel development and the
development of EFI boot loaders. The idea behind this patch is to give
the kernel developers full control over the EFI boot process. As
H. Peter Anvin put it,

"The 'kernel carries its own stub' approach been very successful in
dealing with BIOS, and would make a lot of sense to me for EFI as
well."

This patch introduces an EFI boot stub that allows an x86 bzImage to
be loaded and executed by EFI firmware. The bzImage appears to the
firmware as an EFI application. Luckily there are enough free bits
within the bzImage header so that it can masquerade as an EFI
application, thereby coercing the EFI firmware into loading it and
jumping to its entry point. The beauty of this masquerading approach
is that both BIOS and EFI boot loaders can still load and run the same
bzImage, thereby allowing a single kernel image to work in any boot
environment.

The EFI boot stub supports multiple initrds, but they must exist on
the same partition as the bzImage. Command-line arguments for the
kernel can be appended after the bzImage name when run from the EFI
shell, e.g.

Shell&gt; bzImage console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sdb initrd=initrd.img

v7:
 - Fix checkpatch warnings.

v6:

 - Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr-&gt;inird_addr_max.

v5:

 - load_options_size is UTF-16, which needs dividing by 2 to convert
   to the corresponding ASCII size.

v4:

 - Don't read more than image-&gt;load_options_size

v3:

 - Fix following warnings when compiling CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n

   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘main’:
   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:24: warning: unused variable ‘pe_header’
   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:15: warning: unused variable ‘file_sz’

 - As reported by Matthew Garrett, some Apple machines have GOPs that
   don't have hardware attached. We need to weed these out by
   searching for ones that handle the PCIIO protocol.

 - Don't allocate memory if no initrds are on cmdline
 - Don't trust image-&gt;load_options_size

Maarten Lankhorst noted:
 - Don't strip first argument when booted from efibootmgr
 - Don't allocate too much memory for cmdline
 - Don't update cmdline_size, the kernel considers it read-only
 - Don't accept '\n' for initrd names

v2:

 - File alignment was too large, was 8192 should be 512. Reported by
   Maarten Lankhorst on LKML.
 - Added UGA support for graphics
 - Use VIDEO_TYPE_EFI instead of hard-coded number.
 - Move linelength assignment until after we've assigned depth
 - Dynamically fill out AddressOfEntryPoint in tools/build.c
 - Don't use magic number for GDT/TSS stuff. Requested by Andi Kleen
 - The bzImage may need to be relocated as it may have been loaded at
   a high address address by the firmware. This was required to get my
   macbook booting because the firmware loaded it at 0x7cxxxxxx, which
   triggers this error in decompress_kernel(),

	if (heap &gt; ((-__PAGE_OFFSET-(128&lt;&lt;20)-1) &amp; 0x7fffffff))
		error("Destination address too large");

Cc: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg &lt;rydberg@euromail.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321383097.2657.9.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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There is currently a large divide between kernel development and the
development of EFI boot loaders. The idea behind this patch is to give
the kernel developers full control over the EFI boot process. As
H. Peter Anvin put it,

"The 'kernel carries its own stub' approach been very successful in
dealing with BIOS, and would make a lot of sense to me for EFI as
well."

This patch introduces an EFI boot stub that allows an x86 bzImage to
be loaded and executed by EFI firmware. The bzImage appears to the
firmware as an EFI application. Luckily there are enough free bits
within the bzImage header so that it can masquerade as an EFI
application, thereby coercing the EFI firmware into loading it and
jumping to its entry point. The beauty of this masquerading approach
is that both BIOS and EFI boot loaders can still load and run the same
bzImage, thereby allowing a single kernel image to work in any boot
environment.

The EFI boot stub supports multiple initrds, but they must exist on
the same partition as the bzImage. Command-line arguments for the
kernel can be appended after the bzImage name when run from the EFI
shell, e.g.

Shell&gt; bzImage console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sdb initrd=initrd.img

v7:
 - Fix checkpatch warnings.

v6:

 - Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr-&gt;inird_addr_max.

v5:

 - load_options_size is UTF-16, which needs dividing by 2 to convert
   to the corresponding ASCII size.

v4:

 - Don't read more than image-&gt;load_options_size

v3:

 - Fix following warnings when compiling CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n

   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘main’:
   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:24: warning: unused variable ‘pe_header’
   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:15: warning: unused variable ‘file_sz’

 - As reported by Matthew Garrett, some Apple machines have GOPs that
   don't have hardware attached. We need to weed these out by
   searching for ones that handle the PCIIO protocol.

 - Don't allocate memory if no initrds are on cmdline
 - Don't trust image-&gt;load_options_size

Maarten Lankhorst noted:
 - Don't strip first argument when booted from efibootmgr
 - Don't allocate too much memory for cmdline
 - Don't update cmdline_size, the kernel considers it read-only
 - Don't accept '\n' for initrd names

v2:

 - File alignment was too large, was 8192 should be 512. Reported by
   Maarten Lankhorst on LKML.
 - Added UGA support for graphics
 - Use VIDEO_TYPE_EFI instead of hard-coded number.
 - Move linelength assignment until after we've assigned depth
 - Dynamically fill out AddressOfEntryPoint in tools/build.c
 - Don't use magic number for GDT/TSS stuff. Requested by Andi Kleen
 - The bzImage may need to be relocated as it may have been loaded at
   a high address address by the firmware. This was required to get my
   macbook booting because the firmware loaded it at 0x7cxxxxxx, which
   triggers this error in decompress_kernel(),

	if (heap &gt; ((-__PAGE_OFFSET-(128&lt;&lt;20)-1) &amp; 0x7fffffff))
		error("Destination address too large");

Cc: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg &lt;rydberg@euromail.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321383097.2657.9.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>doc: fix broken references</title>
<updated>2011-09-27T16:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-15T00:02:26+00:00</published>
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There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.

Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.

Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated</title>
<updated>2009-12-12T12:08:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-17T22:52:28+00:00</published>
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Fix up all users of utsrelease.h

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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Fix up all users of utsrelease.h

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-06-10T23:14:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-10T23:14:41+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, setup: fix comment in the "glove box" code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the video code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the MCA code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the EDD code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the APM code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the core boot code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure
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* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, setup: fix comment in the "glove box" code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the video code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the MCA code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the EDD code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the APM code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the core boot code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure
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<entry>
<title>x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE</title>
<updated>2009-05-20T18:26:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-20T18:26:09+00:00</published>
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Correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE (the amount of memory we need
during decompression).  One symbol (ZO_startup_32) was missing from
zoffset.h, and another (ZO_z_extract_offset) was misspelled.

[ Impact: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE (the amount of memory we need
during decompression).  One symbol (ZO_startup_32) was missing from
zoffset.h, and another (ZO_z_extract_offset) was misspelled.

[ Impact: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version</title>
<updated>2009-05-12T00:45:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-07T23:54:11+00:00</published>
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A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header.  Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version.  This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.

Add extension fields for both type and version.  The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.

Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type &lt;&lt; 4) + (ver &amp; 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.

[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header.  Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version.  This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.

Add extension fields for both type and version.  The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.

Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type &lt;&lt; 4) + (ver &amp; 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.

[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields</title>
<updated>2009-05-12T00:44:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-11T22:56:08+00:00</published>
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Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it
to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention,
memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still
force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary.

Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to
the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear
memory the kernel will require during initialization.

[ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it
to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention,
memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still
force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary.

Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to
the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear
memory the kernel will require during initialization.

[ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T21:40:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-11T21:21:12+00:00</published>
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Make symbols from the main vmlinux, as opposed to just
compressed/vmlinux, available to header.S.  Also, export a few
additional symbols.

This will be used in a subsequent patch to export the total memory
footprint of the kernel.

[ Impact: enable future enhancement ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Make symbols from the main vmlinux, as opposed to just
compressed/vmlinux, available to header.S.  Also, export a few
additional symbols.

This will be used in a subsequent patch to export the total memory
footprint of the kernel.

[ Impact: enable future enhancement ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure</title>
<updated>2009-04-09T23:08:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-02T01:08:28+00:00</published>
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Impact: new interfaces (not yet used)

For all the platforms out there, there is an infinite number of buggy
BIOSes.  This adds infrastructure to treat BIOS interrupts more like
toxic waste and "glove box" them -- we switch out the register set,
perform the BIOS interrupt, and then restore the previous state.

LKML-Reference: &lt;49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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Impact: new interfaces (not yet used)

For all the platforms out there, there is an infinite number of buggy
BIOSes.  This adds infrastructure to treat BIOS interrupts more like
toxic waste and "glove box" them -- we switch out the register set,
perform the BIOS interrupt, and then restore the previous state.

LKML-Reference: &lt;49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: remove zImage support</title>
<updated>2009-03-11T18:00:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-11T17:55:33+00:00</published>
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Impact: obsolete feature removal

The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long
time.  It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still
fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that
anyone ever uses it.  Furthermore, although it is still supported by
most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at
all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and
not having even noticed.

Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any
meaning.

LKML-Reference: &lt;49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Impact: obsolete feature removal

The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long
time.  It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still
fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that
anyone ever uses it.  Furthermore, although it is still supported by
most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at
all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and
not having even noticed.

Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any
meaning.

LKML-Reference: &lt;49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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