between kernel virtual address and physical address anymore. This so
that we can link the kernel at some virtual address without having
to worry whether the corresponding physical memory exists and is
available. The PBVM uses 64KB pages that are mapped to physical
addresses using a page table. The page table is at least 1 EFI page
in size, but can grow up to 1MB. This effectively gives us a memory
size between 32MB and 8GB -- i.e. enough to load a DVD image if one
wants to.
The loader assigns physical memory based on the EFI memory map and
makes sure that all physical memory is naturally aligned and a power
of 2. At this time there's no consideration for allocating physical
memory that is close to the BSP.
The kernel is informed about the physical address of the page table
and its size and can locate all PBVM pages through it.
The loader does not wire the PBVM page table yet. Instead it wires
all of the PBVM with a single translation. This is fine for now,
but a follow-up commit will fix it. We cannot handle more than 32MB
right now.
Note that the loader will map as much of the loaded kernel and
modules as possible, but it's up to the kernel to handle page faults
for references that aren't mapped. To make that easier, the page
table is mapped at a fixed virtual address.
1. Make libefi portable by removing ia64 specific code and build
it on i386 and amd64 by default to prevent regressions. These
changes include fixes and improvements over previous code to
establish or improve APIs where none existed or when the amount
of kluging was unacceptably high.
2. Increase the amount of sharing between the efi and ski loaders
to improve maintainability of the loaders and simplify making
changes to the loader-kernel handshaking in the future.
The version of the efi and ski loaders are now both changed to 1.2
as user visible improvements and changes have been made.
changing the Makefile, fail the creation of loader.efi when there are
unresolved symbols in loader.sym. This avoids silently creating a
faulty EFI binary.
