SeaBIOS April 2021

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[PATCH] fw/coreboot.c: Use coreboot table to find cbfs
by Arthur Heymans 22 Apr '22

22 Apr '22

The "cbfs master header" cbfs file is considered a legacy feature in coreboot and is planned for removal in the master branch. Since 2015 the coreboot tables have exported info about the active cbfs. This change uses the cbfs information in the coreboot tables instead of following the cbfs master header pointer in the bootblock to find cbfs. This change makes it possible to access CBFS fmap regions that don't feature a "cbfs master header", which is the case with Googles VBOOT solution. This breaks compatibility with very old coreboot build (build before fb5d5b16 "2015-07-14, cbtable: describe boot media"). Keeping backward compatibility with the "cbfs master header" would complicate the code. Signed-off-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur(a)aheymans.xyz> diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig index 3a8ffa1..51ba827 100644 --- a/src/Kconfig +++ b/src/Kconfig @@ -93,15 +93,6 @@ endchoice help Support CBFS files compressed using the lzma decompression algorithm. - config CBFS_LOCATION - depends on COREBOOT_FLASH - hex "CBFS memory end location" - default 0 - help - Memory address of where the CBFS data ends. This should - be zero for normal builds. It may be a non-zero value if - the CBFS filesystem is at a non-standard location (eg, - 0xffe00000 if CBFS ends 2Meg below the end of flash). config MULTIBOOT depends on COREBOOT diff --git a/src/fw/coreboot.c b/src/fw/coreboot.c index 7c0954b..8a35c1d 100644 --- a/src/fw/coreboot.c +++ b/src/fw/coreboot.c @@ -88,6 +88,18 @@ struct cbmem_console { #define CBMC_OVERFLOW (1 << 31) static struct cbmem_console *cbcon = NULL; +#define CB_TAG_BOOT_MEDIA_PARAMS 0x30 + +struct cb_boot_media_params { + u32 tag; + u32 size; + /* offsets are relative to start of boot media */ + u64 fmap_offset; + u64 cbfs_offset; + u64 cbfs_size; + u64 boot_media_size; +}; + static u16 ipchksum(char *buf, int count) { @@ -146,7 +158,12 @@ find_cb_subtable(struct cb_header *cbh, u32 tag) struct cb_header * find_cb_table(void) { - struct cb_header *cbh = find_cb_header(0, 0x1000); + static struct cb_header *cbh; + + if (cbh) + return cbh; + + cbh= find_cb_header(0, 0x1000); if (!cbh) return NULL; struct cb_forward *cbf = find_cb_subtable(cbh, CB_TAG_FORWARD); @@ -317,20 +334,8 @@ ulzma(u8 *dst, u32 maxlen, const u8 *src, u32 srclen) * Coreboot flash format ****************************************************************/ -#define CBFS_HEADER_MAGIC 0x4F524243 -#define CBFS_VERSION1 0x31313131 - -struct cbfs_header { - u32 magic; - u32 version; - u32 romsize; - u32 bootblocksize; - u32 align; - u32 offset; - u32 pad[2]; -} PACKED; - #define CBFS_FILE_MAGIC 0x455649484352414cLL // LARCHIVE +#define CBFS_ALIGNMENT 64 struct cbfs_file { u64 magic; @@ -429,30 +434,50 @@ coreboot_cbfs_init(void) if (!CONFIG_COREBOOT_FLASH) return; - struct cbfs_header *hdr = *(void **)(CONFIG_CBFS_LOCATION - 4); - if ((u32)hdr & 0x03) { - dprintf(1, "Invalid CBFS pointer %p\n", hdr); + dprintf(3, "Attempting to initialize coreboot cbfs\n"); + + struct cb_header *cbh = find_cb_table(); + if (!cbh) { + dprintf(1, "cbfs_init: unable to find cb table\n"); return; } - if (CONFIG_CBFS_LOCATION && (u32)hdr > CONFIG_CBFS_LOCATION) - // Looks like the pointer is relative to CONFIG_CBFS_LOCATION - hdr = (void*)hdr + CONFIG_CBFS_LOCATION; - if (hdr->magic != cpu_to_be32(CBFS_HEADER_MAGIC)) { - dprintf(1, "Unable to find CBFS (ptr=%p; got %x not %x)\n" - , hdr, hdr->magic, cpu_to_be32(CBFS_HEADER_MAGIC)); + + struct cb_boot_media_params *cbbmp = + find_cb_subtable(cbh, CB_TAG_BOOT_MEDIA_PARAMS); + + if (!cbbmp) { + dprintf(1, "cbfs_init: unable to find boot media params\n"); return; } - dprintf(1, "Found CBFS header at %p\n", hdr); - u32 romsize = be32_to_cpu(hdr->romsize); - u32 romstart = CONFIG_CBFS_LOCATION - romsize; - struct cbfs_file *fhdr = (void*)romstart + be32_to_cpu(hdr->offset); + const u32 romsize = cbbmp->boot_media_size; + const u32 cbfs_start = cbbmp->cbfs_offset - romsize; + const u32 cbfs_end = cbfs_start + cbbmp->cbfs_size - 1; + + dprintf(3, "cbfs_init: cbfs_start=0x%08x, cbfs_end=0x%08x\n", cbfs_start, + cbfs_end); + + u32 offset = cbfs_start; + for (;;) { - if ((u32)fhdr - romstart > romsize) - break; - u64 magic = fhdr->magic; - if (magic != CBFS_FILE_MAGIC) + if (offset > cbfs_end || offset < cbfs_start) break; + + struct cbfs_file *fhdr = (void*)offset; + + if (fhdr->magic != CBFS_FILE_MAGIC) { + offset++; + offset = ALIGN(offset, CBFS_ALIGNMENT); + continue; + } + + /* Skip empty space */ + if (strcmp(fhdr->filename, "") == 0) { + offset += ALIGN(be32_to_cpu(fhdr->offset) + be32_to_cpu(fhdr->len) + , CBFS_ALIGNMENT); + continue; + } + struct cbfs_romfile_s *cfile = malloc_tmp(sizeof(*cfile)); if (!cfile) { warn_noalloc(); @@ -473,8 +498,8 @@ coreboot_cbfs_init(void) } romfile_add(&cfile->file); - fhdr = (void*)ALIGN((u32)cfile->data + cfile->rawsize - , be32_to_cpu(hdr->align)); + offset = ALIGN((u32)cfile->data + cfile->rawsize + , CBFS_ALIGNMENT); } process_links_file(); -- 2.30.2

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[PATCH v3 0/4] nvme: Add PRP List support
by Alexander Graf 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

While looking at VM bootup times, we stumbled over the fact that the NVMe code only does I/O operations of up to 4kb at a given point in time. This is usually ok, but if you have an OS that loads a lot of data on boot in combination to network backed storage, it shows in bootup times. There is no need to restrict ourselves to 4kb though. The INT13 call we receive gives us much larger chunks which we can just map into a native bigger NVMe I/O call if the request buffer is page aligned. This patch implements all logic required to do the above and gives a substantial performance boost on boot. v1 -> v2: - fix dprintf - Fix bounds check on PRP list add logic - Reduce PRP list to 15 entries embedded in the ns struct. This reduces BIOS reserved memory footprint by 4kb. v2 -> v3: - new patch: nvme: Split requests by maximum allowed size - Adjust the maximum request size to sector units. The hardware field describes it in pages. Alexander Graf (4): nvme: Record maximum allowed request size nvme: Allow to set PRP2 nvme: Pass large I/O requests as PRP lists nvme: Split requests by maximum allowed size src/hw/nvme-int.h | 16 ++++++- src/hw/nvme.c | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.16.4 Amazon Development Center Germany GmbH Krausenstr. 38 10117 Berlin Geschaeftsfuehrung: Christian Schlaeger, Jonathan Weiss Eingetragen am Amtsgericht Charlottenburg unter HRB 149173 B Sitz: Berlin Ust-ID: DE 289 237 879

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[PATCH 00/19] Support SMBIOS 3.0 entry points
by Eduardo Habkost 18 Dec '21

18 Dec '21

This series implements support for SMBIOS 3.0 entry points in SeaBIOS. The main advantage of SMBIOS 3.0 entry points is the higher limit for total table size. The SMBIOS 2.1 64435 bytes limit can be easily hit in QEMU if creating virtual machines with more than 720 VCPUs. Eduardo Habkost (19): biostables: copy_fseg_table() function util.h: Delete unused get_smbios_entry_point() prototype smbios: Rename code specific for SMBIOS 2.1 entry points smbios: Generic smbios_next() function smbios: smbios_get_tables() function smbios: Use smbios_get_tables()/smbios_next() at display_uuid() smbios: smbios_major_version()/smbios_minor_version() helpers tpm: Use smbios_get_tables() csm: Don't check SMBios21Addr before calling copy_smbios_21() smbios: Make SMBios21Addr variable static smbios: Use smbios_next() at smbios_romfile_setup() smbios: Extract SMBIOS table building code to separate function smbios: Make smbios_build_tables() more generic smbios: smbios_21_setup_entry_point() function smbios: Make some smbios_build_tables() arguments optional smbios: Make smbios_build_tables() ready for 64-bit tables smbios: copy_smbios_30() function smbios: Support SMBIOS 3.0 entry point at copy_table() smbios: Support SMBIOS 3.0 entry point at smbios_romfile_setup() src/std/smbios.h | 17 ++- src/util.h | 5 +- src/fw/biostables.c | 259 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- src/fw/csm.c | 6 +- src/fw/smbios.c | 12 +- src/tcgbios.c | 12 +- 6 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-) -- 2.28.0

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[PATCH] vgasrc/svgamodes: added 4k resolution
by vitaly＠cyberhaven.com 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

From: Vitaly Chipounov <vitaly(a)cyberhaven.com> This requires at least 32MB of video memory. Tested with Windows 10's default display driver and virtio-vga. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Chipounov <vitaly(a)cyberhaven.com> --- vgasrc/bochsvga.h | 4 ++-- vgasrc/svgamodes.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/vgasrc/bochsvga.h b/vgasrc/bochsvga.h index ae5f75d..f08219f 100644 --- a/vgasrc/bochsvga.h +++ b/vgasrc/bochsvga.h @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ #define VBE_DISPI_BANK_ADDRESS 0xA0000 #define VBE_DISPI_BANK_SIZE_KB 64 -#define VBE_DISPI_MAX_XRES 2560 -#define VBE_DISPI_MAX_YRES 1600 +#define VBE_DISPI_MAX_XRES 3840 +#define VBE_DISPI_MAX_YRES 2160 #define VBE_DISPI_IOPORT_INDEX 0x01CE #define VBE_DISPI_IOPORT_DATA 0x01CF diff --git a/vgasrc/svgamodes.c b/vgasrc/svgamodes.c index 6e494c7..63ef040 100644 --- a/vgasrc/svgamodes.c +++ b/vgasrc/svgamodes.c @@ -92,5 +92,6 @@ struct generic_svga_mode svga_modes[] VAR16 = { { 0x196, { MM_DIRECT, 2560, 1440, 16, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } }, { 0x197, { MM_DIRECT, 2560, 1440, 24, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } }, { 0x198, { MM_DIRECT, 2560, 1440, 32, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } }, + { 0x199, { MM_DIRECT, 3840, 2160, 32, 8, 16, SEG_GRAPH } }, }; unsigned int svga_mcount VAR16 = ARRAY_SIZE(svga_modes); -- 2.25.1

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[PATCH v3 0/5] Make seabios linkable with lld
by Fangrui Song 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

This patch series make seabios linkable with lld. This is beneficial for FreeBSD ports as well https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/misc/seabios/Makefile as they can drop an LLD_UNSAFE As a maintainer of lld ELF, I have triaged numerous pieces of software. seabios is the only one making use of This drops the only instance https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12726 1, 2, 3 and 4 are really independent and can be applied in arbitrary order. 5 depends on 4. I originally combined 4 and 5 and that was why I don't think a patch series made sense. Fangrui Song (5): romlayout.S: Add missing SHF_ALLOC flag to .fixedaddr.\addr Make rom16.o linkable with lld Makefile: Change ET_EXEC to ET_REL so that lld can link bios.bin.elf romlayout32flag.lds: Use `. +=` instead of `. =` test-build.sh: Delete unneeded LD capability test Makefile | 4 ++++ scripts/layoutrom.py | 13 ++++++++++--- scripts/test-build.sh | 42 +----------------------------------------- src/romlayout.S | 2 +- 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) -- 2.26.0.292.g33ef6b2f38-goog

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[PATCH] vgasrc/vgalayout.lds.S: ignore .node.gnu.property (binutils-2.36 support)
by Sergei Trofimovich 26 May '21

26 May '21

From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox(a)gentoo.org> Modern binutils unconditionally tracks x86_64 ISA levels in intermediate files in .note.gnu.property. Custom liker script does not handle the section and complains about it: ld --gc-sections -T out/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds out/vgaccode16.o \ out/vgaentry.o out/vgaversion.o -o out/vgarom.o ld: section .note.gnu.property LMA [0000000000000000,0000000000000027] \ overlaps section .text LMA [0000000000000000,00000000000098af] The change ignores .note.gnu.property section. Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox(a)gentoo.org> --- vgasrc/vgalayout.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds.S b/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds.S index 533734d..e17d89e 100644 --- a/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds.S +++ b/vgasrc/vgalayout.lds.S @@ -19,5 +19,5 @@ SECTIONS // Discard regular data sections to force a link error if // 16bit code attempts to access data not marked with VAR16. - /DISCARD/ : { *(.text*) *(.rodata*) *(.data*) *(.bss*) *(COMMON) } + /DISCARD/ : { *(.text*) *(.rodata*) *(.data*) *(.bss*) *(COMMON) *(.note.gnu.property) } } -- 2.31.1

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SeaBIOS fails to boot from NVMe controller with lots of namespaces
by Thanos Makatos 26 May '21

26 May '21

I'm using SeaBIOS (b0d61ec) to boot from a virtual NVMe controller that has relatively many namespaces (64). The exact error is : /3ff9f000\ Start thread |3ff9f000| Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/*@6 ... |3ff9f000| WARNING - Unable to allocate resource at nvme_controller_enable:632! I changed the number of namespaces my controller reports to 1 and it worked fine. Is there an easy way to get around this or do I have to fix the code? I haven't looked at the code in detail, but I think we don't have to allocate the array of namespaces in nvme_controller_enable; instead, we can probe a namespace right before we attempt to boot from it (not sure where exactly this is done).

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[PATCH RESEND] nvme: look for NVMe namespace in boot rom file
by Thanos Makatos 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

From: Thanos Makatos <thanos(a)nutanix.com> This patch allows specifying an NVMe namespace ID in the boot ROM file in the form /pci@0cf8/*@*/nvme/ns@*, where the 2nd component is the PCI device and the last component is the namespace ID. E.g. booting from namespace 2: boot order: 1: /pci@i0cf8/pci4e58,0001@6/nvme/ns@2 2: /rom(a)genroms/bootfail.bin 3: HAL ... |3ffa9000| Searching bootorder for: /pci@i0cf8/*@6/nvme/ns@2 |3ffa9000| NS 2 prio 1 |3ffa9000| phys_alloc zone=0x3ffbfeb8 size=80 align=10 ret=3ffac6e0 (detail=0x3ffac6b0) |3ffa9000| phys_alloc zone=0x3ffbfeb8 size=24 align=10 ret=3ffac690 (detail=0x3ffac660) |3ffa9000| Registering bootable: NVMe NS 2: 19073 MiB (39062500 512-byte blocks + 0-byte metadata) (type:2 prio:1 data:f4050) |3ffa9000| NVMe initialization complete! \3ffa9000/ End thread If we find a specific namespace we're looking for then we stop probing all other namespaces as there's no point in doing so. If a namespace is not specified in the boot ROM file then we default to the old way of booting from NVMe. As a future optimization we can avoid keeping information for all namespaces and operate on a single namespace at at time. This way we won't run out of memory even if the NVMe controller has the maximum number of namespaces (2^32 - 1). The corresponding QEMU patches haven't been upstreamed yet. Signed-off-by: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos(a)nutanix.com> -- Resending patch since it never reached the list, including a more detailed commit message. --- src/boot.c | 12 ++++++++++++ src/hw/nvme.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- src/util.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/boot.c b/src/boot.c index 1effd80..6c2a150 100644 --- a/src/boot.c +++ b/src/boot.c @@ -325,6 +325,18 @@ int bootprio_find_mmio_device(void *mmio) return find_prio(desc); } +int bootprio_find_nvme_device(struct pci_device *pci, u32 ns_id) +{ + if (CONFIG_CSM) + return csm_bootprio_pci(pci); + if (!CONFIG_BOOTORDER) + return -1; + char desc[256], *p; + p = build_pci_path(desc, sizeof(desc), "*", pci); + snprintf(p, desc+sizeof(desc)-p, "/nvme/ns@%u", ns_id); + return find_prio(desc); +} + int bootprio_find_scsi_device(struct pci_device *pci, int target, int lun) { if (!CONFIG_BOOTORDER) diff --git a/src/hw/nvme.c b/src/hw/nvme.c index f26b811..b35a273 100644 --- a/src/hw/nvme.c +++ b/src/hw/nvme.c @@ -233,10 +233,23 @@ nvme_admin_identify_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, u32 ns_id) ns_id)->ns; } -static void +static char* +nvme_ns_desc(const struct nvme_namespace *ns, u32 ns_id) +{ + return znprintf(MAXDESCSIZE, "NVMe NS %u: %llu MiB (%llu %u-byte " + "blocks + %u-byte metadata)\n", + ns_id, (ns->lba_count * ns->block_size) >> 20, + ns->lba_count, ns->block_size, + ns->metadata_size); +} + +/* Returns 0 if the namespace is usable, -1 otherwise. */ +static int nvme_probe_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_namespace *ns, u32 ns_id, u8 mdts) { + int ret = -1; + ns->ctrl = ctrl; ns->ns_id = ns_id; @@ -288,16 +301,14 @@ nvme_probe_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_namespace *ns, u32 ns_id, ns->dma_buffer = zalloc_page_aligned(&ZoneHigh, NVME_PAGE_SIZE); - char *desc = znprintf(MAXDESCSIZE, "NVMe NS %u: %llu MiB (%llu %u-byte " - "blocks + %u-byte metadata)\n", - ns_id, (ns->lba_count * ns->block_size) >> 20, - ns->lba_count, ns->block_size, ns->metadata_size); - + char *desc = nvme_ns_desc(ns, ns_id); dprintf(3, "%s", desc); - boot_add_hd(&ns->drive, desc, bootprio_find_pci_device(ctrl->pci)); + free(desc); + ret = 0; free_buffer: free (id); + return ret; } @@ -635,10 +646,28 @@ nvme_controller_enable(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl) memset(ctrl->ns, 0, sizeof(*ctrl->ns) * ctrl->ns_count); /* Populate namespace IDs */ - int ns_idx; - for (ns_idx = 0; ns_idx < ctrl->ns_count; ns_idx++) { - nvme_probe_ns(ctrl, &ctrl->ns[ns_idx], ns_idx + 1, identify->mdts); + int ns_idx, first_ns_idx = -1, prio = -1; + for (ns_idx = 0; ns_idx < ctrl->ns_count && prio == -1; ns_idx++) { + if (!nvme_probe_ns(ctrl, &ctrl->ns[ns_idx], ns_idx + 1, identify->mdts)) { + /* Check whether the NS is explicitly specified. */ + if (first_ns_idx == -1) { + first_ns_idx = ns_idx; + } + prio = bootprio_find_nvme_device(ctrl->pci, ns_idx + 1); + } } + /* no NS specified, use the first one */ + if (prio != -1) { + ns_idx--; + } else if (first_ns_idx != -1) { + ns_idx = first_ns_idx; + dprintf(3, "no NVMe NS specified, defaulting to NS %u\n", ns_idx + 1); + prio = bootprio_find_pci_device(ctrl->pci); + } + if (prio != -1) { + boot_add_hd(&ctrl->ns[ns_idx].drive, + nvme_ns_desc(&ctrl->ns[ns_idx], ns_idx + 1), prio); + } dprintf(3, "NVMe initialization complete!\n"); return 0; diff --git a/src/util.h b/src/util.h index 0de3522..ad2d0ef 100644 --- a/src/util.h +++ b/src/util.h @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ u8 is_bootprio_strict(void); struct pci_device; int bootprio_find_pci_device(struct pci_device *pci); int bootprio_find_mmio_device(void *mmio); +int bootprio_find_nvme_device(struct pci_device *pci, u32 ns_id); int bootprio_find_scsi_device(struct pci_device *pci, int target, int lun); int bootprio_find_scsi_mmio_device(void *mmio, int target, int lun); int bootprio_find_ata_device(struct pci_device *pci, int chanid, int slave); -- 2.22.3

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[PATCH] make BUILD_MIN_BIOSTABLE configurable
by Gerd Hoffmann 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Add config option for BUILD_MIN_BIOSTABLE. Default is 8k for bios images being 256k or larger in size, 2k (current value) otherwise. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel(a)redhat.com> --- Makefile | 2 +- scripts/layoutrom.py | 3 ++- src/Kconfig | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3d8943ef5f25..ddcd1dff399d 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ $(OUT)romlayout16.lds: $(OUT)ccode32flat.o $(OUT)code32seg.o $(OUT)ccode16.o $(O $(Q)$(OBJDUMP) -thr $(OUT)code32flat.o > $(OUT)code32flat.o.objdump $(Q)$(OBJDUMP) -thr $(OUT)code32seg.o > $(OUT)code32seg.o.objdump $(Q)$(OBJDUMP) -thr $(OUT)code16.o > $(OUT)code16.o.objdump - $(Q)$(PYTHON) ./scripts/layoutrom.py $(OUT)code16.o.objdump $(OUT)code32seg.o.objdump $(OUT)code32flat.o.objdump $(OUT)$(KCONFIG_AUTOHEADER) $(OUT)romlayout16.lds $(OUT)romlayout32seg.lds $(OUT)romlayout32flat.lds + $(Q)$(PYTHON) ./scripts/layoutrom.py $(OUT)code16.o.objdump $(OUT)code32seg.o.objdump $(OUT)code32flat.o.objdump $(OUT)$(KCONFIG_AUTOHEADER) $(OUT)romlayout16.lds $(OUT)romlayout32seg.lds $(OUT)romlayout32flat.lds $(CONFIG_MIN_BIOSTABLE) # These are actually built by scripts/layoutrom.py above, but by pulling them # into an extra rule we prevent make -j from spawning layoutrom.py 4 times. diff --git a/scripts/layoutrom.py b/scripts/layoutrom.py index 6616721d1b58..94deca9fcc85 100755 --- a/scripts/layoutrom.py +++ b/scripts/layoutrom.py @@ -636,7 +636,8 @@ def scanconfig(file): def main(): # Get output name - in16, in32seg, in32flat, cfgfile, out16, out32seg, out32flat = sys.argv[1:] + in16, in32seg, in32flat, cfgfile, out16, out32seg, out32flat, biostable = sys.argv[1:] + BUILD_MIN_BIOSTABLE = biostable * 1024 # Read in the objdump information infile16 = open(in16, 'r') diff --git a/src/Kconfig b/src/Kconfig index 3a8ffa15fded..95519fc50fa3 100644 --- a/src/Kconfig +++ b/src/Kconfig @@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ endchoice it into 128 KB (which was big enouth for a long time) you'll probably have to disable some featues such as xhci support. + config MIN_BIOSTABLE + int "biostable size (in KB)" + default 8 if ROM_SIZE >= 256 + default 2 + help + Memory space for BIOS tables in f-segment. + endmenu menu "Hardware support" -- 2.30.2

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SeaBIOS only tries to boot from first namespace of NVMe controller
by Thanos Makatos 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

I discovered that SeaBIOS only tries to boot from the first NVMe namespace of an NVMe controller. Therefore, if the OS is installed in the 2nd namespace boot will fail. Is there a reason why all other namespaces aren't tried? I've looked at the code and IIUC each namespace is treated as a separate disk. Would we ever want to fix this? If not, maybe we should update the documentation accordingly?

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