linux/arch/x86/boot
Matt Fleming 291f36325f x86, efi: EFI boot stub support
There is currently a large divide between kernel development and the
development of EFI boot loaders. The idea behind this patch is to give
the kernel developers full control over the EFI boot process. As
H. Peter Anvin put it,

"The 'kernel carries its own stub' approach been very successful in
dealing with BIOS, and would make a lot of sense to me for EFI as
well."

This patch introduces an EFI boot stub that allows an x86 bzImage to
be loaded and executed by EFI firmware. The bzImage appears to the
firmware as an EFI application. Luckily there are enough free bits
within the bzImage header so that it can masquerade as an EFI
application, thereby coercing the EFI firmware into loading it and
jumping to its entry point. The beauty of this masquerading approach
is that both BIOS and EFI boot loaders can still load and run the same
bzImage, thereby allowing a single kernel image to work in any boot
environment.

The EFI boot stub supports multiple initrds, but they must exist on
the same partition as the bzImage. Command-line arguments for the
kernel can be appended after the bzImage name when run from the EFI
shell, e.g.

Shell> bzImage console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sdb initrd=initrd.img

v7:
 - Fix checkpatch warnings.

v6:

 - Try to allocate initrd memory just below hdr->inird_addr_max.

v5:

 - load_options_size is UTF-16, which needs dividing by 2 to convert
   to the corresponding ASCII size.

v4:

 - Don't read more than image->load_options_size

v3:

 - Fix following warnings when compiling CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n

   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c: In function ‘main’:
   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:24: warning: unused variable ‘pe_header’
   arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c:138:15: warning: unused variable ‘file_sz’

 - As reported by Matthew Garrett, some Apple machines have GOPs that
   don't have hardware attached. We need to weed these out by
   searching for ones that handle the PCIIO protocol.

 - Don't allocate memory if no initrds are on cmdline
 - Don't trust image->load_options_size

Maarten Lankhorst noted:
 - Don't strip first argument when booted from efibootmgr
 - Don't allocate too much memory for cmdline
 - Don't update cmdline_size, the kernel considers it read-only
 - Don't accept '\n' for initrd names

v2:

 - File alignment was too large, was 8192 should be 512. Reported by
   Maarten Lankhorst on LKML.
 - Added UGA support for graphics
 - Use VIDEO_TYPE_EFI instead of hard-coded number.
 - Move linelength assignment until after we've assigned depth
 - Dynamically fill out AddressOfEntryPoint in tools/build.c
 - Don't use magic number for GDT/TSS stuff. Requested by Andi Kleen
 - The bzImage may need to be relocated as it may have been loaded at
   a high address address by the firmware. This was required to get my
   macbook booting because the firmware loaded it at 0x7cxxxxxx, which
   triggers this error in decompress_kernel(),

	if (heap > ((-__PAGE_OFFSET-(128<<20)-1) & 0x7fffffff))
		error("Destination address too large");

Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321383097.2657.9.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-12-12 14:26:10 -08:00
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compressed x86, efi: EFI boot stub support 2011-12-12 14:26:10 -08:00
tools x86, efi: EFI boot stub support 2011-12-12 14:26:10 -08:00
.gitignore x86, boot: add new generated files to the appropriate .gitignore files 2009-06-02 21:13:30 -07:00
a20.c x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the core boot code 2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
apm.c x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the APM code 2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
bioscall.S x86, boot: use .code16gcc instead of .code16 2009-06-16 17:47:32 -07:00
bitops.h x86: remove pointless comments 2008-04-19 19:19:54 +02:00
boot.h x86, setup: move isdigit.h to ctype.h, header files on top. 2010-08-02 21:07:20 -07:00
cmdline.c x86, setup: reorganize the early console setup 2010-08-02 15:51:56 -07:00
code16gcc.h i386: move boot 2007-10-11 11:16:45 +02:00
copy.S x86: copy.S - use GLOBAL,ENDPROC macros 2009-02-19 17:13:00 +01:00
cpu.c x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words 2008-09-16 15:09:26 -07:00
cpucheck.c x86: boot: stub out unimplemented CPU feature words 2008-09-05 16:13:44 -07:00
ctype.h x86, setup: move isdigit.h to ctype.h, header files on top. 2010-08-02 21:07:20 -07:00
early_serial_console.c x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200 2010-09-21 10:18:33 -07:00
edd.c x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the EDD code 2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
header.S x86, efi: EFI boot stub support 2011-12-12 14:26:10 -08:00
install.sh kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script 2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
main.c x86, setup: enable early console output from the decompressor 2010-08-02 20:32:20 -07:00
Makefile x86, build: Do not set the root_dev field in bzImage 2011-05-25 12:46:05 -07:00
mca.c x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the MCA code 2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
memory.c x86, setup: When probing memory with e801, use ax/bx as a pair 2011-04-25 14:52:37 -07:00
mkcpustr.c x86: Remove trailing spaces in messages 2010-02-07 17:47:51 +01:00
mtools.conf.in i386: move boot 2007-10-11 11:16:45 +02:00
pm.c x86: remove zImage support 2009-03-11 11:00:00 -07:00
pmjump.S x86, setup: move 32-bit code to .text32 2009-03-17 15:26:06 -07:00
printf.c x86, setup: reorganize the early console setup 2010-08-02 15:51:56 -07:00
regs.c x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure 2009-04-09 16:08:11 -07:00
setup.ld x86: Document linker script ASSERT() quirk 2009-10-16 07:18:46 +02:00
string.c x86, efi: EFI boot stub support 2011-12-12 14:26:10 -08:00
tty.c x86, setup: reorganize the early console setup 2010-08-02 15:51:56 -07:00
version.c kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated 2009-12-12 13:08:15 +01:00
vesa.h x86-boot: don't request VBE2 information 2008-03-07 16:39:14 +01:00
video-bios.c x86: fix usage of bios intcall() 2009-07-04 12:56:32 -07:00
video-mode.c x86: move suspend wakeup code to C 2008-04-17 17:41:37 +02:00
video-vesa.c Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-14 08:01:47 -07:00
video-vga.c x86, setup: Set ax register in boot vga query 2010-06-10 15:24:29 -07:00
video.c x86, setup: When restoring the screen, update boot_params.screen_info 2010-02-17 18:32:06 -08:00
video.h x86, setup: remove obsolete pre-Kconfig CONFIG_VIDEO_ variables 2009-06-26 11:02:31 -07:00