[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 06/26] x86: Emit post codes in startup code for Chromebooks

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 07:11:34 CET 2014


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On x86 it is common to use 'post codes' which are 8-bit hex values emitted
> from the code and visible to the user. Traditionally two 7-segment displays
> were made available on the motherboard to show the last post code that was
> emitted. This allows diagnosis of a boot problem since it is possible to
> see where the code got to before it died.
>
> On modern hardware these codes are not normally visible. On Chromebooks
> they are displayed by the Embedded Controller (EC), so it is useful to emit
> them. We must enable this feature for the EC to see the codes, so add an
> option for this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Change asm label to 1 (from 2)
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Move early init code into early_board_init
>
>  arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c     |  3 ++-
>  arch/x86/cpu/start.S                 |  4 ++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/post.h          | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  board/google/chromebook_link/Kconfig |  4 ++++
>  board/google/common/early_init.S     | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  5 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/post.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c b/arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c
> index 8501716..0760a61 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>  #include <asm/cache.h>
>  #include <asm/cpu.h>
>  #include <asm/io.h>
> +#include <asm/post.h>
>  #include <asm/arch-coreboot/tables.h>
>  #include <asm/arch-coreboot/sysinfo.h>
>  #include <asm/arch/timestamp.h>
> @@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ void show_boot_progress(int val)
>                 gd->arch.tsc_prev = now;
>         }
>  #endif
> -       outb(val, 0x80);
> +       outb(val, POST_PORT);
>  }
>
>  int print_cpuinfo(void)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/start.S b/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
> index b18f320..1b738f9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include <config.h>
>  #include <version.h>
>  #include <asm/global_data.h>
> +#include <asm/post.h>
>  #include <asm/processor.h>
>  #include <asm/processor-flags.h>
>  #include <generated/generic-asm-offsets.h>
> @@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ _start:
>         jmp     early_board_init
>  .globl early_board_init_ret
>  early_board_init_ret:
> +       post_code(POST_START)
>
>         /* Initialise Cache-As-RAM */
>         jmp     car_init
> @@ -96,6 +98,7 @@ car_init_ret:
>
>         /* Align global data to 16-byte boundary */
>         andl    $0xfffffff0, %esp
> +       post_code(POST_START_STACK)
>
>         /* Zero the global data since it won't happen later */
>         xorl    %eax, %eax
> @@ -131,6 +134,7 @@ car_init_ret:
>         call    setup_gdt
>
>         /* Set parameter to board_init_f() to boot flags */
> +       post_code(POST_START_DONE)
>         xorl    %eax, %eax
>
>         /* Enter, U-boot! */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/post.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/post.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..3371185
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/post.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> +/*
> + * Copyright (c) 2014 Google, Inc
> + *
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier:    GPL-2.0+
> + */
> +
> +#ifndef _post_h
> +#define _post_h
> +
> +/* port to use for post codes */
> +#define POST_PORT              0x80
> +
> +/* post codes which represent various stages of init */
> +#define POST_START             0x1e
> +#define POST_CAR_START         0x1f
> +
> +#define POST_START_STACK       0x29
> +#define POST_START_DONE                0x2a
> +
> +/* Output a post code using al - value must be 0 to 0xff */
> +#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
> +#define post_code(value) \
> +       movb    $value, %al; \
> +       outb    %al, $POST_PORT
> +#else
> +static inline void post_code(int code)
> +{
> +       outb(code, POST_PORT);
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> +#endif
> diff --git a/board/google/chromebook_link/Kconfig b/board/google/chromebook_link/Kconfig
> index 975d557..9c715ba 100644
> --- a/board/google/chromebook_link/Kconfig
> +++ b/board/google/chromebook_link/Kconfig
> @@ -12,4 +12,8 @@ config SYS_SOC
>  config SYS_CONFIG_NAME
>         default "chromebook_link"
>
> +config EARLY_POST_CROS_EC
> +       bool "Enable early post to Chrome OS EC"
> +       default y
> +
>  endif
> diff --git a/board/google/common/early_init.S b/board/google/common/early_init.S
> index cf70ae4..7017185 100644
> --- a/board/google/common/early_init.S
> +++ b/board/google/common/early_init.S
> @@ -6,5 +6,24 @@
>
>  .globl early_board_init
>  early_board_init:
> -       /* No 32-bit board specific initialisation */
> +       /* Enable post codes to EC */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_POST_CROS_EC
> +       mov    $0x1b, %ecx
> +       rdmsr
> +       and    $0x100, %eax
> +       test   %eax, %eax
> +       je     1f
> +
> +       mov    $0x8000f8f0, %eax
> +       mov    $0xcf8, %dx
> +       out    %eax, (%dx)
> +       mov    $0xfed1c001, %eax
> +       mov    $0xcfc, %dx
> +       out    %eax, (%dx)
> +       mov    $0xfed1f410, %esp
> +       mov    (%esp), %eax
> +       and    $0xfffffffb, %eax
> +       mov    %eax, (%esp)
> +1:
> +#endif
>         jmp     early_board_init_ret
> --

Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>


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