[coreboot] [RFC] SMM handling and resident coreboot

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Jul 28 08:27:36 CEST 2008


On 27.07.2008 17:55, ron minnich wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> Since we know how big our RAM is when we copy coreboot to RAM, I suggest
>> that we copy coreboot to the end of memory and run it from there. It is
>> a pretty good assumption that no payload will require that space. During
>> memory map creation, we just reserve 256k at the upper end, and we're good.
>>     
>
> works for me. I like it.
>   

AFAICS this means for v3 that we require stage2 to be PIC like initram.
I'm not entirely happy about that because of possible toolchain issues
(mostly untested path).

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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