In locore, we must detect and handle different arguments passed by
loader(8) compared to what we recieve when booting directly via SBI
firmware. Currently we receive the hart ID in a0 and a pointer to the
device tree blob in a1. loader(8) provides only a pointer to its
metadata in a0.
The solution to this is to add an additional entry point, _alt_start.
This will be placed first in the .text section, so SBI firmware will
enter here, and jump to the common pagetable setup shortly after. Since
loader(8) understands our ELF kernel, it will enter at the ELF's entry
address, which points to _start. This approach leads to very little
guesswork as to which way we booted.
Fix-up initriscv() to parse the loader's metadata, continuing to use
fake_preload_metadata() in the SBI direct boot case.
Reviewed by: markj, jrtc27 (asm portion)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24912
This can happen with very large kernels (e.g. ones embedding a root
filesystem). The DTB written by OpenSBI/BBL is quite small so this is
unlikely to hit important data, but if it does this can result in very
confusing and hard-to-debug crashes. Add a KASSERT() and a verbose print
to catch this problem with debug kernels.
While this will not print any output by default if it fails (that would
depend on EARLY_PRINTF), at least the kernel now halts reliably instead
of randomly crashing.
Reviewed By: mhorne
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25153
Replace our hand-rolled functions with the generic ones provided by
kern/subr_physmem.c. This greatly simplifies the initialization of
physical memory regions and kernel globals.
Tested by: nick
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24154
The location of the device-tree blob is passed to the kernel by the
previous booting stage (i.e. BBL or OpenSBI). Currently, we leave it
untouched and mark the 1MB of memory holding it as unavailable.
Instead, do what is done by other fake_preload_metadata() routines and
copy to the DTB to KVA space. This is more in line with what loader(8)
will provide us in the future, and it allows us to reclaim the hole in
physical memory.
Reviewed by: markj, kp (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24152
New version is not compatible on supervisor mode with v1.9.1
(previous version).
Highlights:
o BBL (Berkeley Boot Loader) provides no initial page tables
anymore allowing us to choose VM, to build page tables manually
and enable MMU in S-mode.
o SBI interface changed.
o GENERIC kernel.
FDT is now chosen standard for RISC-V hardware description.
DTB is now provided by Spike (golden model simulator). This
allows us to introduce GENERIC kernel. However, description
for console and timer devices is not provided in DTB, so move
these devices temporary to nexus bus.
o Supervisor can't access userspace by default. Solution is to
set SUM (permit Supervisor User Memory access) bit in sstatus
register.
o Compressed extension is now turned on by default.
o External GCC 7.1 compiler used.
o _gp renamed to __global_pointer$
o Compiler -march= string is now in use allowing us to choose
required extensions (compressed, FPU, atomic, etc).
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11800
