The new x86 setup code (4fd06960f1) broke booting on an old P3/500MHz
with an onboard Voodoo3 of mine. After debugging it, it turned out
to be caused by the fact that the vesa probing now asks for VBE2 data.
Disassembing the video BIOS shows that it overflows the vesa_general_info
structure when VBE2 data is requested because the source addresses for the
information strings which get strcpy'ed to the buffer lie outside the 32K
BIOS code (and hence contain long sequences of 0xff's).
E.G.:
get_vbe_controller_info:
00002A9C 60 pushaw
00002A9D 1E push ds
00002A9E 0E push cs
00002A9F 1F pop ds
00002AA0 2BC9 sub cx,cx
00002AA2 6626813D56424532 cmp dword [es:di],0x32454256 ; "VBE2"
00002AAA 7501 jnz .1
00002AAC 41 inc cx
.1:
00002AAD 51 push cx
00002AAE B91400 mov cx,0x14
00002AB1 BED47F mov si, controller_header
00002AB4 57 push di
00002AB5 F3A4 rep movsb ; copy vbe1.2 header
00002AB7 B9EC00 mov cx,0xec
00002ABA 2AC0 sub al,al
00002ABC F3AA rep stosb ; zero pad remainder
00002ABE 5F pop di
00002ABF E8EB0D call word get_memory
00002AC2 C1E002 shl ax,0x2
00002AC5 26894512 mov [es:di+0x12],ax ; total memory
00002AC9 26C745040003 mov word [es:di+0x4],0x300 ; VBE version
00002ACF 268C4D08 mov [es:di+0x8],cs
00002AD3 268C4D10 mov [es:di+0x10],cs
00002AD7 59 pop cx
00002AD8 E361 jcxz .done ; VBE2 requested?
00002ADA 8D9D0001 lea bx,[di+0x100]
00002ADE 53 push bx
00002ADF 87DF xchg bx,di ; di now points to 2nd half
00002AE1 26C747140001 mov word [es:bx+0x14],0x100 ; sw rev
00002AE7 26897F06 mov [es:bx+0x6],di ; oem string
00002AEB 268C4708 mov [es:bx+0x8],es
00002AEF BE5280 mov si,0x8052 ; oem string
00002AF2 E87A1B call word strcpy
00002AF5 26897F0E mov [es:bx+0xe],di ; video mode list
00002AF9 268C4710 mov [es:bx+0x10],es
00002AFD B91E00 mov cx,0x1e
00002B00 BEE87F mov si,vidmodes
00002B03 F3A5 rep movsw
00002B05 26897F16 mov [es:bx+0x16],di ; oem vendor
00002B09 268C4718 mov [es:bx+0x18],es
00002B0D BE2480 mov si,0x8024 ; oem vendor
00002B10 E85C1B call word strcpy
00002B13 26897F1A mov [es:bx+0x1a],di ; oem product
00002B17 268C471C mov [es:bx+0x1c],es
00002B1B BE3880 mov si,0x8038 ; oem product
00002B1E E84E1B call word strcpy
00002B21 26897F1E mov [es:bx+0x1e],di ; oem product rev
00002B25 268C4720 mov [es:bx+0x20],es
00002B29 BE4580 mov si,0x8045 ; oem product rev
00002B2C E8401B call word strcpy
00002B2F 58 pop ax
00002B30 B90001 mov cx,0x100
00002B33 2BCF sub cx,di
00002B35 03C8 add cx,ax
00002B37 2AC0 sub al,al
00002B39 F3AA rep stosb ; zero pad
.done:
00002B3B 1F pop ds
00002B3C 61 popaw
00002B3D B84F00 mov ax,0x4f
00002B40 C3 ret
(The full BIOS can be found at http://peter.korsgaard.com/vgabios.bin
if interested).
The old setup code didn't ask for VBE2 info, and the new code doesn't
actually do anything with the extra information, so the fix is to simply
not request it. Other BIOS'es might have the same problem.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The proper way to terminate the e820 chain is with %ebx == 0 on the
last legitimate memory block. However, several BIOSes don't do that
and instead return error (CF = 1) when trying to read off the end of
the list. For this error return, %eax doesn't necessarily return the
SMAP signature -- correctly so, since %ah should contain an error code
in this case.
To deal with some particularly broken BIOSes, we clear the entire e820
chain if the SMAP signature is missing in the middle, indicating a
plain insane e820 implementation. However, we need to make the test
for CF = 1 before the SMAP check.
This fixes at least one HP laptop (nc6400) for which none of the
memory-probing methods (e820, e801, 88) functioned fully according to
spec.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In arch/x86/boot/printf.c gets rid of unused tail of digits: const char
*digits = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; (we are using 0-9a-f
only)
Uses smaller/faster lowercasing (by ORing with 0x20)
if we know that we work on numbers/digits. Makes
strtoul smaller, and also we are getting rid of
static const char small_digits[] = "0123456789abcdefx";
static const char large_digits[] = "0123456789ABCDEFX";
since this works equally well:
static const char digits[16] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
Size savings:
$ size vmlinux.org vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
877320 112252 90112 1079684 107984 vmlinux.org
877048 112252 90112 1079412 107874 vmlinux
It may be also a tiny bit faster because code has less
branches now, but I doubt it is measurable.
[ hugh@veritas.com: uppercase pointers fix ]
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Instead of obscure numbers, print the list of missing CPU features in
cleartext. To conserve space, use a host program (mkcpustr.c) to
produce a compact list of mandatory features only.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Do this rather than defining a global version and overriding it in
almost all cases in order to make subsequent patches simpler.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
for bzImage, the vmlinux_64.lds still have s32 bit code, and startup_32
should be 0. fix the comment.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remainder of unification can occur inplace.
size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There seems to be a preference for the 64 bit version so use that on 32 bit and
drop the stray leading "."
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The files are now identical so merge them.
size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
vmlinux_64 and vmlinux_32.scr are now identical
size shows an expected movement from .text to .rodata and 4 extra bytes
of padding.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Paolo Ciarrocchi
Ingo Molnar
Ian Campbell
Peter Korsgaard
H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds
S.Çağlar Onur
Denys Vlasenko
Andi Kleen
Yinghai Lu