[U-Boot] [PATCH 12/39] x86: Tidy up global descriptor table setup
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Thu Nov 6 21:20:04 CET 2014
This code is a little muddled, so tidy it up. Make sure that we put the
GDT in the right place and set it up properly.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
arch/x86/cpu/start.S | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/start.S b/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
index 62ac4cd..c41e1ae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
+++ b/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
@@ -69,6 +69,16 @@ car_init_ret:
* We now have CONFIG_SYS_CAR_SIZE bytes of Cache-As-RAM (or SRAM,
* or fully initialised SDRAM - we really don't care which)
* starting at CONFIG_SYS_CAR_ADDR to be used as a temporary stack
+ * and early malloc area.
+ *
+ * Stack grows down from top of CAR. We have:
+ *
+ * top-> CONFIG_SYS_CAR_ADDR + CONFIG_SYS_CAR_SIZE
+ * global_data
+ * x86 global descriptor table
+ * early malloc area
+ * stack
+ * bottom-> CONFIG_SYS_CAR_ADDR
*/
/* Stack grows down from top of CAR */
@@ -86,12 +96,16 @@ car_init_ret:
movl %esp, %edi
rep stosb
- /* Setup first parameter to setup_gdt */
+ /* Setup first parameter to setup_gdt, pointer to global_data */
movl %esp, %eax
/* Reserve space for global descriptor table */
subl $X86_GDT_SIZE, %esp
+ /* Align temporary global descriptor table to 16-byte boundary */
+ andl $0xfffffff0, %esp
+ movl %esp, %ecx
+
#if defined(CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN)
subl $CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN, %esp
movl %eax, %edx
@@ -103,14 +117,13 @@ car_init_ret:
andl $0xfffffff0, %esp
/* Set second parameter to setup_gdt */
- movl %esp, %edx
+ movl %ecx, %edx
/* Setup global descriptor table so gd->xyz works */
call setup_gdt
/* Set parameter to board_init_f() to boot flags */
xorl %eax, %eax
- movw %bx, %ax
/* Enter, U-boot! */
call board_init_f
--
2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5
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