[coreboot] The filo crashes if the filo and coreboot overlap.

[Bao, Zheng]

In relocate_segment().
If the coreboot and filo overlap, it will "slice off" a piece at the
beginning or end. A new segment is allocated. If it is inserted before
the "seg" that is being processed, is there any chance that the "new"
segment will be processed? I am confused about it. On my fam 10 board,
it seems that the "new" segment was not processed and an error happens
when the code jumps to filo which is actually middle of nowhere.


Zheng

-----Original Message-----
From: coreboot-bounces+zheng.bao=amd.com at coreboot.org
[mailto:coreboot-bounces+zheng.bao=amd.com at coreboot.org] On Behalf Of
Patrick Georgi
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 12:13 AM
To: Zheng Bao
Cc: coreboot at coreboot.org
Subject: Re: [coreboot] The filo crashes if the filo and coreboot
overlap.

Am Samstag, den 31.10.2009, 15:43 +0000 schrieb Zheng Bao:
> The filo crashes if the filo and coreboot overlap.
> Since the CBFS is the must-have feature, my family 10
>  board crashes when it jumps to filo. I am trying to
>  find out why. I need help.
> Based on current code, the AMD Family 10 will cause the filo
> and coreboot overlap in RAM. The overlaps_coreboot() in selfboot.c
> will return 1. But I am not sure if it will make the system
> crashes.
What revision is that? There was an issue like that but I fixed it
several weeks ago.

> If anybody explains briefly what happens if they
> overlap.
When coreboot and payload overlap, coreboot uses a bounce buffer. The
bounce buffer is twice the size of coreboot. The first half is for the
part of the payload that overlaps coreboot, the other half is for
coreboot itself.

The SELF loader loads data that would overlap coreboot to the bounce
buffer, and jumps into jmp_to_elf_entry when it's done with loading.
The jmp_to_elf_entry function copies coreboot to the upper half of the
bounce buffer, and jumps in there, so the code is out of the way.

Then it copies the lower half to the coreboot area and jumps to the
entry point.

There are some complications to that because of the decompression
routine, so the code is not as nice as it should be. But I specifically
tested your scenario (payload from 1mb to 2.3mb or so, coreboot starting
at 2mb)

> The coreboot information:
> CONFIG_RAMBASE=0x00200000
Try changing that to 0x100000.


Patrick


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