symbols from the linked kernel.
The main thrust of this change is to generate a kernel that has the arm
"marker" symbols stripped. Marker symbols start with $a, $d, $t or $x, and
are emitted by the compiler to tell other toolchain components about the
locations of data embedded in the instruction stream (literal-pool
stuff). They are used for generating mixed-endian binaries (which we don't
support). The linked kernel has approximately 21,000 such symbols in it,
wasting space (500K in kernel.full, 190K in the final linked kernel), and
sometimes obscuring function names in stack tracebacks.
This change also simplifies the way the kernel is linked. Instead of using
sed to generate two different ldscript files to generate both an elf kernel
and a binary (elf headers stripped) kernel, we now use a single ldscript
that refers to a "text_start" symbol, and we provide the value for that
symbol using --defsym on the linker command line.
In some cases, like is locked bootstrap or device's inability to boot from
removable media, we cannot use standard boot sequence and is necessary to
boot kernel directly from U-Boot.
Discussed with: jhibbits
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13861
After discussing with mmel@, it was clear this is insufficient to address
all the needs. mmel@ will commit his original patch, from
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13861, and the additions needed from r354714
will be made afterward.
Requested by: mmel
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Summary:
Boot arm64 kernel using booti command from U-boot. booti can relocate initrd
image into higher ram addresses, therefore align the initrd load address to 1GiB
and create VA = PA map for it. Create L2 pagetable entries to copy the initrd
image into KVA.
(parts of the code in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13861 was referred and used
as appropriate)
Submitted by: Siddharth Tuli <siddharthtuli_gmail.com>
Reviewed by: manu
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22255
VERSREQ < 7.+ physically will not work with new config(8) due to major bump,
which is why I bumped it in the first place... Back to the original version
config-generated hints.c/env.c from r335998 and later are incompatible with
earlier kernels due to no longer setting envmode/hintmode. A minor bump for
this is insufficient, as matching major version with a later minor version
is still viewed as backwards-compatible.
This was an MI kernel change, soo all VERSREQ's are bumped.
- Move the required kernel compiler flags from Makefile.arm64 to kern.mk.
- Build arm64 modules as PIC; non-PIC relocations in .o for shared object
output cannot be handled.
- Do not try to install aarch64 symlink.
- A hack for arm64 to avoid ld -r stage. See the comment for the explanation.
Some functionality is lost, like ctf handling, but hopefully will be
restored after newer linker is available.
Reviewed by: andrew, emaste
Tested by: andrew (on real hardware)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3796
This is only the minimum set of files needed to boot in qemu. As such it is
missing a few things.
The bus_dma code is currently only stub functions with a full implementation
from the development tree to follow.
The gic driver has been copied as the interrupt framework is different. It
is expected the two drivers will be merged by the arm intrng project,
however this will need to be imported into the tree and support for arm64
would need to be added.
This includes code developed by myself, SemiHalf, Ed Maste, and Robin
Randhawa from ARM. This has been funded by the FreeBSD Foundation, with
early development by myself in my spare time with assistance from Robin.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2199
Reviewed by: emaste, imp
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
