[coreboot] Future coreboot phases?
Rudolf Marek
r.marek at assembler.cz
Sun Jan 10 11:08:13 CET 2010
> How is S3 resume handled?
I describe the AMD64 port. There is a function which you can get sleepstate from
a chipset. If you are resuming, most of the boot code flow is same. However
there are following expecptions:
1) the coreboot RAM stage area is backuped to a cbmem store. It is done because
we don't have relocable ram stage.
2) The memory is taken out of the selfrefresh instead of "init command", so most
of the memory setup is same. The DQS values are stored in chipset S3 "NVRAM"
during first boot, and used later when resume to fill them in. It could be done
via simple backup of all mem cntrl regs but it is not done so.
3) The boot continues normally until the build of the memory tables. No tables
are build but the wakeup vector is taken from ACPI tables and with a realmode
trampoline (currently partly overwriting first 1K of mem) the CPU is taken to
the realmode OS wakup entrypoint.
Thats it. Maybe it is more clear now.
Rudolf
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