On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:05:08AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
We'll need some way to make sure the pmbase (also mmconf xbar) set by the firmware matches the pmbase address filled into the acpi tables by qemu ...
So the options we have are:
(1) Hardcode the address everywhere. This is pretty close to the current state, 0xb000 is hard-coded pretty much everywhere, basically because older qemu versions had the pmbase register readonly with 0xb000. I'd like to move the pmbase somewhere else long-term, to free the 0xb000-0xbfff window, so I'd like to avoid that.
(2) Have qemu pick pmbase/xbar addr. Doesn't work due to initialization order issues (especially xbar for coreboot).
(3) Have firmware pick pmbase/xbar, have fixup instructions for the addresses in in the loader script, simliar to the fixup instructions for table-to-table pointers.
(4) [ new idea by mst ] Have firmware pick pmbase/xbar, then have qemu look at the hardware registers programmed by the firmware, use pmbase/xbar addresses found there there when generating the tables.
I don't much like option 3 or 4.
Although hardcoding (option 1) is ugly, I think that ugliness does not justify the complexity of run-time patching (3/4).
As for option 2 - I don't see why coreboot couldn't read the values out of fw_cfg early on for the handful of cases like this.
-Kevin