Kyösti Mälkki ([email protected]) just uploaded a new patch set to 
gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/707

-gerrit

commit bdab48d3f13d117bd1100be616837e6d1dbb55fc
Author: Kyösti Mälkki <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Mar 5 09:25:12 2012 +0200

    Fix address of IDT in real-mode entry
    
    In a case of CS & 0x0fff != 0x0, lidt memory operand does not point
    to nullidt, this can raise an exception and shutdown the CPU.
    
    When an AP CPU receives 8-bit Start-Up IPI vector yzH, it starts
    execute at physical address 000yz000H. Seems this translates to
    either yz00:0000 or y000:z000 (CS:IP), depending of the CPU model.
    With the change entry16.inc is relocatable as the commentary suggests
    and can be used as ap_sipi_vector on SMP systems.
    
    Change-Id: I885a2888179700ba6e2b11d4f2d6a64ddea4c2dc
    Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki <[email protected]>
---
 src/cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.inc |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.inc b/src/cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.inc
index 0fa8c11..e4613bf 100644
--- a/src/cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.inc
+++ b/src/cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.inc
@@ -57,13 +57,6 @@ _start:
         * entry16.inc.
         */
 
-       /* Load an IDT with NULL limit to prevent the 16bit IDT being used
-        * in protected mode before c_start.S sets up a 32bit IDT when entering
-        * ram stage.
-        */
-       movw $nullidt_offset, %bx
-       lidt %cs:(%bx)
-
        /* Note: gas handles memory addresses in 16 bit code very poorly.
         * In particular it doesn't appear to have a directive allowing you
         * associate a section or even an absolute offset with a segment 
register.
@@ -98,10 +91,18 @@ _start:
         * the low 16 bits.  This means that the intial segment used
         * when start is called must be 64K aligned.  This should not
         * restrict the address as the ip address can be anything.
+        *
+        * Also load an IDT with NULL limit to prevent the 16bit IDT being used
+        * in protected mode before c_start.S sets up a 32bit IDT when entering
+        * ram stage. In practise: CPU will shutdown on any exception.
+        * See IA32 manual Vol 3A 19.26 Interrupts.
         */
 
        movw    %cs, %ax
        shlw    $4, %ax
+       movw    $nullidt_offset, %bx
+       subw    %ax, %bx
+       lidt    %cs:(%bx)
        movw    $gdtptr16_offset, %bx
        subw    %ax, %bx
        data32  lgdt %cs:(%bx)

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