History log of /haiku/headers/private/kernel/arch/x86/arch_kernel_args.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 6e6efaec 24-Apr-2014 Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@gmail.com>

EFI: add ACPI support

Also add support in the kernel to get the ACPI RSDP from the
bootloader, and pass onto the ACPI driver using get_boot_item.


# e54df517 22-Apr-2016 Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@unixzen.com>

x86/kernel: Up kernel max page table to 16

* New Intel SkyLake seems to have 9 mapped ranges
at boot. It seems like this define has been creeping
up for a while.
* Resolves the inital issue reported in #11377 on SkyLake
as well. Bonefish mentioned it might need to be raised
again... he had some good foresight there :-)
* I'm seeing the same no bootable partitions issue though
via USB after this raise. (maybe a USB 3.1 thing?)


# fa80e7b2 27-Oct-2014 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

x86 kernel args: Increase number of page tables


# 527da4ca 27-Jan-2014 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

x86[_64]: Separate bootloader and kernel GDT and IDT logic

From now on bootloader sets up its own minimal valid GDT and IDT. Then
the kernel replaces them with its own tables.


# 3e0e3be7 06-Dec-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

boot, kernel: Replace MAX_BOOT_CPUS with SMP_MAX_CPUS


# e5fc2bfc 26-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Implemented long mode setup/switch code, the bootloader can now start the 64-bit kernel!

The setup procedure is fairly simple: create a 64-bit GDT and 64-bit page
tables that include all kernel mappings from the 32-bit address space, but at
the correct 64-bit address, then go through kernel_args and changes all virtual
addresses to 64-bit addresses, and finally switch to long mode and jump to the
kernel.


# d8efc6ca 21-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Changes to kernel_args to make it identical for x86 and x86_64.

* Added a FixedWidthPointer template class which uses 64-bit storage to hold
a pointer. This is used in place of raw pointers in kernel_args.
* Added __attribute__((packed)) to kernel_args and all structures contained
within it. This is necessary due to different alignment behaviour for
32-bit and 64-bit compilation with GCC.
* With these changes, kernel_args will now come out the same size for both
the x86_64 kernel and the loader, excluding the preloaded_image structure
which has not yet been changed.
* Tested both an x86 GCC2 and GCC4 build, no problems caused by these changes.


# 9623c482 11-Jun-2010 Travis Geiselbrecht <geist@foobox.com>

SMP: remove the tracking of apic id -> cpu id. Don't pass between bootloader and kernel.

Kernel doesn't use it, and it could be regenerated in the kernel if it did need it.

This also unlocks the apic range the bios can use. Previously the apic ids would have
to fit within 0..MAX_CPUS or it'd reject the cpu. Some boxes (mine in particular)
seem to sparsely populate the apic id so that the range is pretty large.

git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@37108 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# d40a9355 02-Mar-2010 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Boot loader (x86 mmu.cpp):
* Made the page table allocation more flexible. Got rid of sMaxVirtualAddress
and added new virtual_end address to the architecture specific kernel args.
* Increased the virtual space we reserve for the kernel to 16 MB. That
should suffice for quite a while. The previous 2 MB were too tight when
building the kernel with debug info.
* mmu_init(): The way we were translating the BIOS' extended memory map to
our physical ranges arrays was broken. Small gaps between usable memory
ranges would be ignored and instead marked allocated. This worked fine for
the boot loader and during the early kernel initialization, but after the
VM has been fully set up it frees all physical ranges that have not been
claimed otherwise. So those ranges could be entered into the free pages
list and would be used later. This could possibly cause all kinds of weird
problems, probably including ACPI issues. Now we add only the actually
usable ranges to our list.

Kernel:
* vm_page_init(): The pages of the ranges between the usable physical memory
ranges are now marked PAGE_STATE_UNUSED, the allocated ranges
PAGE_STATE_WIRED.
* unmap_and_free_physical_pages(): Don't free pages marked as unused.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@35726 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 6a8cce07 22-Aug-2008 Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@gmail.com>

add hpet locations to the kernel_args. Patch by Dustin Howett (GSOC)

git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@27129 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# a3129fbc 30-Nov-2004 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

Added cpu_clock_speed field for now - might either be moved to the main
kernel_args; depending on how it'll be done on PPC.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@10311 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# b4d2f3a8 07-Oct-2003 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

Renamed arch_stage2.h to arch_kernel_args.h.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@4972 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# fa80e7b28fda0e9519b0a3ab916d1c338241b4e6 27-Oct-2014 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

x86 kernel args: Increase number of page tables


# 527da4ca8a4c008b58da456c01a49dcf16a98fbc 27-Jan-2014 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

x86[_64]: Separate bootloader and kernel GDT and IDT logic

From now on bootloader sets up its own minimal valid GDT and IDT. Then
the kernel replaces them with its own tables.


# 3e0e3be7604ed12ab61b58789c44bc6d7333f48b 06-Dec-2013 Pawel Dziepak <pdziepak@quarnos.org>

boot, kernel: Replace MAX_BOOT_CPUS with SMP_MAX_CPUS


# e5fc2bfcab8c15a3ff7d33c358f9aa82ed73c823 26-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Implemented long mode setup/switch code, the bootloader can now start the 64-bit kernel!

The setup procedure is fairly simple: create a 64-bit GDT and 64-bit page
tables that include all kernel mappings from the 32-bit address space, but at
the correct 64-bit address, then go through kernel_args and changes all virtual
addresses to 64-bit addresses, and finally switch to long mode and jump to the
kernel.


# d8efc6caf6babe278c48e8aa3277376fb68ff455 21-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Changes to kernel_args to make it identical for x86 and x86_64.

* Added a FixedWidthPointer template class which uses 64-bit storage to hold
a pointer. This is used in place of raw pointers in kernel_args.
* Added __attribute__((packed)) to kernel_args and all structures contained
within it. This is necessary due to different alignment behaviour for
32-bit and 64-bit compilation with GCC.
* With these changes, kernel_args will now come out the same size for both
the x86_64 kernel and the loader, excluding the preloaded_image structure
which has not yet been changed.
* Tested both an x86 GCC2 and GCC4 build, no problems caused by these changes.


# 9623c48284a184ff5ef9de6d614a1525ffa79e77 11-Jun-2010 Travis Geiselbrecht <geist@foobox.com>

SMP: remove the tracking of apic id -> cpu id. Don't pass between bootloader and kernel.

Kernel doesn't use it, and it could be regenerated in the kernel if it did need it.

This also unlocks the apic range the bios can use. Previously the apic ids would have
to fit within 0..MAX_CPUS or it'd reject the cpu. Some boxes (mine in particular)
seem to sparsely populate the apic id so that the range is pretty large.

git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@37108 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# d40a9355605dff41924273711f9dc9df6da496d2 02-Mar-2010 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

Boot loader (x86 mmu.cpp):
* Made the page table allocation more flexible. Got rid of sMaxVirtualAddress
and added new virtual_end address to the architecture specific kernel args.
* Increased the virtual space we reserve for the kernel to 16 MB. That
should suffice for quite a while. The previous 2 MB were too tight when
building the kernel with debug info.
* mmu_init(): The way we were translating the BIOS' extended memory map to
our physical ranges arrays was broken. Small gaps between usable memory
ranges would be ignored and instead marked allocated. This worked fine for
the boot loader and during the early kernel initialization, but after the
VM has been fully set up it frees all physical ranges that have not been
claimed otherwise. So those ranges could be entered into the free pages
list and would be used later. This could possibly cause all kinds of weird
problems, probably including ACPI issues. Now we add only the actually
usable ranges to our list.

Kernel:
* vm_page_init(): The pages of the ranges between the usable physical memory
ranges are now marked PAGE_STATE_UNUSED, the allocated ranges
PAGE_STATE_WIRED.
* unmap_and_free_physical_pages(): Don't free pages marked as unused.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@35726 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 6a8cce077f4e11902357574a5734c66023c6617a 22-Aug-2008 Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@gmail.com>

add hpet locations to the kernel_args. Patch by Dustin Howett (GSOC)

git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@27129 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# a3129fbc3b181a0de9676f632b908d64e8a62eeb 30-Nov-2004 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

Added cpu_clock_speed field for now - might either be moved to the main
kernel_args; depending on how it'll be done on PPC.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@10311 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# b4d2f3a8e77bc27a7289e6620571f65f6ff75d13 07-Oct-2003 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

Renamed arch_stage2.h to arch_kernel_args.h.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/trunk/current@4972 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96