[coreboot] suspend/resume in v3

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Sep 8 18:00:11 CEST 2008


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 08.09.2008 17:34, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>   
>> * Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> [080908 17:17]:
>>   
>>     
>>> - Declare the CAR area as reserved.
>>>     
>>>       
>> What is it again that keeps us from putting CAR area somewhere where
>> there's no real RAM?
>>   
>>     
>
> The current v3 stage1 design may fail. I don't know of a way to tell gcc
> that the stack moved in the middle of a function. Maybe there is one.
>   

roughly:
asm volatile ("movl newstack, %eax\n movl %eax, %esp\n")


>> Why don't we just put it into the reserved area to begin with, instead
>> of doing those luxations? Creating a generic relocator does not make
>> much sense, because stuff like the SeaBIOS area will not have to be
>> preserved.
>>   
>>     
>
> Unless you want a linker running on boot, you have to know the location
> of the code and data in advance.
We could set up a relocation mapping. That's what FILO does to cope with
this issue.


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