[coreboot] [PATCH] v3: determine global variable location

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 17:34:34 CEST 2008


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 15.10.2008 04:54, ron minnich wrote:
>> return (void *) CONFIG_RAM_STACK_LOCATION;
>>
>> not quite right? CONFIG_RAM_STACK_LOCATION; + CONFIG_RAM_STACK_SIZE -4?
>>
>
> Actually, that was intentional. You see, we haven't decided on the
> meaning of the RAM_STACK_LOCATION constant/variable yet. We could very
> well declare it to be the initial %esp for RAM stacks. Then again, we
> could also decide that the stack shall be at the top of available RAM,
> and that would require us to use a variable.
>
> You supply the meaning of the variable, I'll make sure the code matches.
>

let's call it RAM_TOP_OF_STACK and put it at the standard 88ffc

ron




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