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Linus Torvalds
bec706838e Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, setup: fix comment in the "glove box" code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the video code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the MCA code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the EDD code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the APM code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the core boot code
  x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure
2009-06-10 16:14:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
82782ca77d Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
  x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
  x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
  x86-64: align __PHYSICAL_START, remove __KERNEL_ALIGN
  x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
  x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
  x86, defconfig: update kernel position parameters
  x86, defconfig: update to current, no material changes
  x86: make CONFIG_RELOCATABLE the default
  x86: default CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to 16 MB
  x86: document new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
  x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
  x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
  x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
  x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
  x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
  x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
  x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
  x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
  x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
  ...

Fixed trivial conflict in arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig manually
2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
Mike Galbraith
6799687a53 x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files
git status complains of untracked (generated) files in arch/x86/boot..

# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#       ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy
#       ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
#       ../../arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds
#       ../../arch/x86/boot/voffset.h
#       ../../arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h

..so adjust .gitignore files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-02 21:13:30 -07:00
Tejun Heo
46176b4f6b x86, relocs: ignore R_386_NONE in kernel relocation entries
For relocatable 32bit kernels, boot/compressed/relocs.c processes
relocation entries in the kernel image and appends it to the kernel
image such that boot/compressed/head_32.S can relocate the kernel.
The kernel image is one statically linked object and only uses two
relocation types - R_386_PC32 and R_386_32, of the two only the latter
needs massaging during kernel relocation and thus handled by relocs.
R_386_PC32 is ignored and all other relocation types are considered
error.

When the target of a relocation resides in a discarded section,
binutils doesn't throw away the relocation record but nullifies it by
changing it to R_386_NONE, which unfortunately makes relocs fail.

The problem was triggered by yet out-of-tree x86 stack unwind patches
but given the binutils behavior, ignoring R_386_NONE is the right
thing to do.

The problem has been tracked down to binutils behavior by Jan Beulich.

[ Impact: fix build with certain binutils by ignoring R_386_NONE ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <4A1B8150.40702@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-25 22:52:49 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
ee0736627d Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/setup
Resolved conflicts:
	arch/x86/boot/memory.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-23 16:42:19 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
bca23dba76 x86, setup: revert ACPI 3 E820 extended attributes support
Remove ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes support.  At least one
vendor actively set all the flags to zero, but left ECX on return at
24.  This bug may be present in other BIOSes.

The breakage functionally means the ACPI 3 flags are probably
completely useless, and that no OS any time soon is going to rely on
their existence.  Therefore, drop support completely.  We may want to
revisit this question in the future, if we find ourselves actually
needing the flags.

This reverts all or part of the following checkins:

     cd670599b7
     c549e71d07

However, retain the part from the latter commit that copies e820 into
a temporary buffer; that is an unrelated BIOS workaround.  Put in a
comment to explain that part.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499396 for some
additional information.

[ Impact: detect all memory on affected machines ]

Reported-by: Thomas J. Baker <tjb@unh.edu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>
2009-05-22 11:14:02 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
c6ac4c18fb x86, boot: correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE
Correct the calculation of ZO_INIT_SIZE (the amount of memory we need
during decompression).  One symbol (ZO_startup_32) was missing from
zoffset.h, and another (ZO_z_extract_offset) was misspelled.

[ Impact: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-20 11:26:09 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7ed42a28b2 x86, boot: correct sanity checks in boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c contains several sanity checks on the
output address.  Correct constraints that are no longer correct:

- the alignment test should be MIN_KERNEL_ALIGN on both 32 and 64
  bits.
- the 64 bit maximum address was set to 2^40, which was the limit of
  one specific x86-64 implementation.  Change the test to 2^46, the
  current Linux limit, and at least try to test the end rather than
  the beginning.
- for non-relocatable kernels, test against LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on both
  32 and 64 bits.

[ Impact: fix potential boot failure due to invalid tests ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-12 11:33:08 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5031296c57 x86: add extension fields for bootloader type and version
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header.  Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version.  This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.

Add extension fields for both type and version.  The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.

Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.

[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:45:06 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
37ba7ab5e3 x86, boot: make kernel_alignment adjustable; new bzImage fields
Make the kernel_alignment field adjustable; this allows us to set it
to a large value (intended to be 16 MB to avoid ZONE_DMA contention,
memory holes and other weirdness) while a smart bootloader can still
force a loading at a lesser alignment if absolutely necessary.

Also export pref_address (preferred loading address, corresponding to
the link-time address) and init_size, the total amount of linear
memory the kernel will require during initialization.

[ Impact: allows better kernel placement, gives bootloader more info ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 17:44:39 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
99aa45595f x86, boot: remove dead code from boot/compressed/head_*.S
Remove a couple of lines of dead code from
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S; all of these update registers that
are dead in the current code.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 16:17:05 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
40b387a8a9 x86, boot: use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR on 64 bits
Use LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR instead of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START in the 64-bit
decompression code, for equivalence with the 32-bit code.

[ Impact: cleanup, increases code similarity ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 14:41:55 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
77d1a49995 x86, boot: make symbols from the main vmlinux available
Make symbols from the main vmlinux, as opposed to just
compressed/vmlinux, available to header.S.  Also, export a few
additional symbols.

This will be used in a subsequent patch to export the total memory
footprint of the kernel.

[ Impact: enable future enhancement ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-11 14:40:50 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
02a884c0fe x86, boot: determine compressed code offset at compile time
Determine the compressed code offset (from the kernel runtime address)
at compile time.  This allows some minor optimizations in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S, but more importantly it makes this
value available to the build process, which will enable a future patch
to export the necessary linear memory footprint into the bzImage
header.

[ Impact: cleanup, future patch enabling ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:46:34 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
36d3793c94 x86, boot: use appropriate rep string for move and clear
In the pre-decompression code, use the appropriate largest possible
rep movs and rep stos to move code and clear bss, respectively.  For
reverse copy, do note that the initial values are supposed to be the
address of the first (highest) copy datum, not one byte beyond the end
of the buffer.

rep strings are not necessarily the fastest way to perform these
operations on all current processors, but are likely to be in the
future, and perhaps more importantly, we want to encourage the
architecturally right thing to do here.

This also fixes a couple of trivial inefficiencies on 64 bits.

[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, increase code similarity ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:34:52 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
9754191278 x86, boot: zero EFLAGS on 32 bits
The 64-bit code already clears EFLAGS as soon as it has a stack.  This
seems like a reasonable precaution, so do it on 32 bits as well.

[ Impact: extra paranoia ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:19:01 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
0a13773670 x86, boot: set up the decompression stack as early as possible
Set up the decompression stack as soon as we know where it needs to
go.  That way we have a full-service stack as soon as possible, rather
than relying on the BP_scratch field.

Note that the stack does need to be empty during bss zeroing (or
else the stack needs to be moved out of the bss segment, which is also
an option.)

[ Impact: cleanup, minor paranoia ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:18:47 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5b11f1cee5 x86, boot: straighten out ranges to copy/zero in compressed/head*.S
Both on 32 and 64 bits, we copy all the way up to the end of bss,
except that on 64 bits there is a hack to avoid copying on top of the
page tables.  There is no point in copying bss at all, especially
since we are just about to zero it all anyway.

To clean up and unify the handling, we now do:

  - copy from startup_32 to _bss.
  - zero from _bss to _ebss.
  - the _ebss symbol is aligned to an 8-byte boundary.
  - the page tables are moved to a separate section.

Use _bss as the copy endpoint since _edata may be misaligned.

[ Impact: cleanup, trivial performance improvement ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:18:10 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
b40d68d5b5 x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_64.S
Clean up style issues in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S.  This
file had a lot fewer style issues than its 32-bit cousin, but the ones
it has are worth fixing, especially since it makes the two files more
similar.

[ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:17:32 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5f64ec64e7 x86, boot: stylistic cleanups for boot/compressed/head_32.S
Reformat arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S to be closer to currently
preferred kernel assembly style, that is:

- opcode and operand separated by tab
- operands separated by ", "
- C-style comments

This also makes it more similar to head_64.S.

[ Impact: cleanup, no object code change ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:16:23 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
bd2a36984c x86, boot: use BP_scratch in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_*.S
Use the BP_scratch symbol from asm-offsets.h instead of hard-coding
the location.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:16:22 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
283ab1c0bd x86, boot: follow standard Kbuild style for compression suffix
When generating the compression suffix in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile, follow standard Kbuild
conventions, that is:

- Use a dash not underscore before y/m/n endings
- Use := whenever possible.

Requested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:16:22 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5f11e02019 x86, boot: simplify arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
Simplify the arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile, by using the new
capability of specifying multiple inputs to a compressor, and the
CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS Kconfig symbol.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-05-08 17:16:22 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
0b4eb462da x86, boot: align the .bss section in the decompressor
Aligning the .bss section makes it trivial to use large operation
sizes for moving the initialized sections and clearing the .bss.
The alignment chosen (L1 cache) is somewhat arbitrary, but should be
large enough to avoid all known performance traps and small enough to
not cause troubles.

[ Impact: trivial performance enhancement, future patch prep	]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-08 17:16:21 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
83c4832683 x86: boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S: fix build of bzImage with 64 bit compiler
Jesper reported that he saw following build issue:

 > ld:arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds:9: syntax error
 > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1
 > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
 > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

CPP defines the symbol "i386" to "1".
Undefine this to fix it.

[ Impact: build fix with certain tool chains ]

Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904260958190.3101@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-30 12:36:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
51b26ada79 x86: unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.lds
Look at the:

	diff -u arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.lds

output and realize that they're basially exactly the same except for
trivial naming differences, and the fact that the 64-bit version has a
"pgtable" thing.

So unify them.

There's some trivial cleanup there (make the output format a Kconfig thing
rather than doing #ifdef's for it, and unify both 32-bit and 64-bit BSS
end to "_ebss", where 32-bit used to use the traditional "_end"), but
other than that it's really very mindless and straigt conversion.

For example, I think we should aim to remove "startup_32" vs "startup_64",
and just call it "startup", and get rid of one more difference. I didn't
do that.

Also, notice the comment in the unified vmlinux.lds.S talks about
"head_64" and "startup_32" which is an odd and incorrect mix, but that was
actually what the old 64-bit only lds file had, so the confusion isn't
new, and now that mixing is arguably more accurate thanks to the
vmlinux.lds.S file being shared between the two cases ;)

[ Impact: cleanup, unification ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-27 06:35:24 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
cf9972a921 x86, setup: fix comment in the "glove box" code
Impact: Comment change only

The glove box is about avoiding problems with *registers* being
touched, not *memory*.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-11 22:24:05 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
cf06de7b9c x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the video code
Impact: BIOS proofing

"Glove box" off BIOS interrupts in the video code.

LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-04-09 16:08:12 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
0a706db320 x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the MCA code
Impact: BIOS proofing

"Glove box" off BIOS interrupts in the MCA code.

LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
3435d3476c x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the EDD code
Impact: BIOS proofing

"Glove box" off BIOS interrupts in the EDD code.

LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
d54ea252e4 x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the APM code
Impact: BIOS proofing

"Glove box" off BIOS interrupts in the APM code.

LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
df7699c564 x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the core boot code
Impact: BIOS proofing

"Glove box" off BIOS interrupts in the core boot code.

LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7a734e7dd9 x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure
Impact: new interfaces (not yet used)

For all the platforms out there, there is an infinite number of buggy
BIOSes.  This adds infrastructure to treat BIOS interrupts more like
toxic waste and "glove box" them -- we switch out the register set,
perform the BIOS interrupt, and then restore the previous state.

LKML-Reference: <49DE7F79.4030106@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
1e274a5827 x86, setup: un-resequence mode setting for VGA 80x34 and 80x60 modes
Impact: Fixes these modes on at least one system

The rewrite of the setup code into C resequenced the font setting and
register reprogramming phases of configuring nonstandard VGA modes
which use 480 scan lines in text mode.  However, there exists at least
one board (Micro-Star MS-7383 version 2.0) on which this resequencing
causes an unusable display.

Revert to the original sequencing: set up 480-line mode, install the
font, and then adjust the vertical end register appropriately.

This failure was masked by the fact that the 480-line setup was broken
until checkin 5f64135612 (therefore this
is not a -stable candidate bug fix.)

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-04-07 10:59:25 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
484cad34dd Merge branch 'dma-debug' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent 2009-04-03 16:35:09 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
95a38f3463 x86, setup: compile with -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
Impact: code size reduction (possibly critical)

The x86 boot and decompression code has no use of the branch profiling
constructs, so disable them.  This would bloat the setup code by as
much as 14K, eating up a fairly large chunk of the 32K area we are
guaranteed to have.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03 16:34:45 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
cd670599b7 x86, setup: guard against pre-ACPI 3 e820 code not updating %ecx
Impact: BIOS bug safety

For pre-ACPI 3 BIOSes, pre-initialize the end of the e820 buffer just
in case the BIOS returns an unchanged %ecx but without actually
touching the ACPI 3 extended flags field.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-01 11:35:00 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
c549e71d07 x86, setup: ACPI 3, BIOS workaround for E820-probing code
Impact: ACPI 3 spec compliance, BIOS bug workaround

The ACPI 3 spec added another field to the E820 buffer -- which is
backwards incompatible, since it contains a validity bit.
Furthermore, there has been at least one report of a BIOS which
assumes that the buffer it is pointed at is the same buffer as for the
previous E820 call.  Therefore, read the data into a temporary buffer
and copy the standard part of it if and only if the valid bit is set.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-28 18:20:07 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
32ec7fd08b x86, setup: preemptively save/restore edi and ebp around INT 15 E820
Impact: BIOS bugproofing

Since there are BIOSes known to clobber %ebx and %esi for INT 15 E820,
assume there is something out there clobbering %edi and/or %ebp too,
and don't wait for it to fail.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-28 18:18:20 -07:00
Michael K. Johnson
01522df346 x86, setup: mark %esi as clobbered in E820 BIOS call
Jordan Hargrave diagnosed a BIOS clobbering %esi in the E820 call.
That particular BIOS has been fixed, but there is a possibility that
this is responsible for other occasional reports of early boot
failure, and it does not hurt to add %esi to the clobbers.

-stable candidate patch.

Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael K Johnson <johnsonm@rpath.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-03-28 12:45:39 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5f64135612 x86, setup: fix the setting of 480-line VGA modes
Impact: fix rarely-used feature

The VGA Miscellaneous Output Register is read from address 0x3CC but
written to address 0x3C2.  This was missed when this code was
converted from assembly to C.  While we're at it, clean up the code by
making the overflow bits and the math used to set the bits explicit.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-03-18 16:54:05 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
be721696ca x86, setup: move 32-bit code to .text32
Impact: cleanup

The setup code is mostly 16-bit code, but there is a small stub of
32-bit code at the end.  Move the 32-bit code to a separate segment,
.text32, to avoid scrambling the disassembly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-03-17 15:26:06 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
16a6791934 x86: use targets in the boot Makefile instead of CLEAN_FILES
Impact: cleanup

Instead of using CLEAN_FILES in arch/x86/Makefile, add generated files
to targets in arch/x86/boot/Makefile, so they will get naturally
cleaned up by "make clean".

Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-12 13:43:14 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
f9c5107c2b x86: remove additional vestiges of the zImage/bzImage split
Impact: cleanup

Remove targets that were used for zImage only, and Makefile
infrastructure that was there to support the zImage/bzImage split.

Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1236879901.24144.26.camel@test.thuisdomein>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-12 12:50:33 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
5e47c478b0 x86: remove zImage support
Impact: obsolete feature removal

The zImage kernel format has been functionally unused for a very long
time.  It is just barely possible to build a modern kernel that still
fits within the zImage size limit, but it is highly unlikely that
anyone ever uses it.  Furthermore, although it is still supported by
most bootloaders, it has been at best poorly tested (or not tested at
all); some bootloaders are even known to not support zImage at all and
not having even noticed.

Also remove some really obsolete constants that no longer have any
meaning.

LKML-Reference: <49B703D4.1000008@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-03-11 11:00:00 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8b0e5860cb Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', 'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-03-04 02:22:31 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a852cbfaaf Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core 2009-02-24 21:50:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
965c7ecaf2 x86: remove the Voyager 32-bit subarch
Impact: remove unused/broken code

The Voyager subarch last built successfully on the v2.6.26 kernel
and has been stale since then and does not build on the v2.6.27,
v2.6.28 and v2.6.29-rc5 kernels.

No actual users beyond the maintainer reported this breakage.
Patches were sent and most of the fixes were accepted but the
discussion around how to do a few remaining issues cleanly
fizzled out with no resolution and the code remained broken.

In the v2.6.30 x86 tree development cycle 32-bit subarch support
has been reworked and removed - and the Voyager code, beyond the
build problems already known, needs serious and significant
changes and probably a rewrite to support it.

CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER has been marked BROKEN then. The maintainer has
been notified but no patches have been sent so far to fix it.

While all other subarchs have been converted to the new scheme,
voyager is still broken. We'd prefer to receive patches which
clean up the current situation in a constructive way, but even in
case of removal there is no obstacle to add that support back
after the issues have been sorted out in a mutually acceptable
fashion.

So remove this inactive code for now.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-23 00:54:01 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
609162850d Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/headers' into x86/core 2009-02-20 17:40:50 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
cb425afd21 x86: compressed head_32 - use ENTRY,ENDPROC macros
Impact: clenaup

Linker script will put startup_32 at predefined
address so using startup_32 will not bloat the
code size.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-19 17:13:01 +01:00