Some ELF loaders, in particular gdb's load command for dynamically
loading files into memory, which is often used to load binaries onto
FPGAs over JTAG, do not zero out BSS, leaving the memory in whatever
state it was previously in. Thus, introduce a new --enable-zero-bss
configure flag, which will include code to zero out BSS when booting.
If --enable-boot-machine is passed, BBL disables VM and runs the payload in machine mode.
This is useful for payloads (e.g. RTOSes or other OSes) that want to run
only in machine mode while still relying on bbl/pk for system calls and emulation
Support for separate firmware and kernel payload is added
by updating BBL to read optional preloaded kernel address
attributes from device-tree using a similar mechanism to
that used to pass init ramdisk addresses to linux kernel.
chosen {
riscv,kernel-start = <0x00000000 0x80200000>;
riscv,kernel-end = <0x00000000 0x80590634>;
};
These attributes are added by QEMU and read by BBL when combining
-bios <firmware-image> and -kernel <kernel-image> options. e.g.
$ qemu-system-riscv64 -machine virt -bios bbl -kernel vmlinux
With this change, bbl can be compiled without --with-payload
and the dummy payload alignment is altered to make the memory
footprint of the firmware-only bbl smaller. The dummy payload
message is updated to indicate the alternative load method.
This load method could also be supported by a first stage boot
loader that reads seperate firmware and kernel from SPI flash.
The main advantage of this new mechanism is that it eases kernel
development by avoiding the riscv-pk packaging step after kernel
builds, makes building per repository artefacts for CI simpler,
and mimics bootloaders on other platforms that can load a kernel
image file directly. Ultimately BBL should use an SPI driver to
load the kernel image however this mechanism supports use cases
such such as QEMU's -bios, -kernel and -initrd options following
examples from other platforms that pass kernel entry to firmware
via device-tree.
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Clark <mjc@sifive.com>
I'm trying to debug some device tree problems while booting Linux and
figured it would be really nice to have access to the device tree while
trying to debug these problems. I think this might be useful for lots
of people, so I went ahead and cleaned up the code enough that it should
actaully work in most cases.
SiFive's pk fork is the second one I've had to maintain, and it's a huge
pain because people keep just leaving changes all over the tree. I want
to introduce an interface that the platform-specific details can live
behind so I don't have to keep doing these painful merges.
Now uses a modified MCPPBS. Add --host=riscv to configure path.
Front-end server now just searches PATH for riscv-pk, so just install the pk
to somewhere in your path.
James Clarke
Hesham Almatary
Michael Clark
Palmer Dabbelt
Andrew Waterman
Andrew Waterman
Christopher Celio
Andrew Waterman
Andrew Waterman