From: Michael Zimmermann <sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com>
To: edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: ARM PrePI Memory setup recommendations
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:05:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN9vWDLyoSqvMKj=GU_uKfB=px4k9uEAhSrD8XJm3c_59t2O6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I have some problems with my current setup and would like to ask you for
the best way to configure the following setup:
- I'm using PrePi, I don't need relocations because the loading address is
fixed(0xfe000000)
- The SystemMemory address range is unknown at compile time
- the system-memory consists of multiple ranges with holes so providing
just a base and a size is not enough
- There's no NOR, edk2 gets loaded into dram
my current setup:
PcdSystemMemoryBase = loading addr(0xfe000000)
PcdSystemMemorySize = 32MB
FD_BASE = PcdSystemMemoryBase
FD_SIZE = 4MB
in ArmPlatformGetVirtualMemoryMap I call BuildResourceDescriptorHob for all
DRAM memory ranges.
In PrePiMain after MemoryPeim I call BuildMemoryAllocationHob for some
reserved memory ranges
After running into out-of-memory errors during PrePi when using bigger FV's
I revisited everything and came across a PCD I somehow never looked at when
setting up my platform a year ago: PcdSystemMemoryUefiRegionSize.
this was hardcoded to 0x00e00000 which obviously caused allocation errors
while extracting big FV's even though PcdSystemMemorySize was big enough.
Since there already was this nice comment 'PcdSystemMemorySize - PcdFdSize'
I did exactly that: 32MB-4MB = 28MB.
Unfortunately after doing that MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/Gcd/Gcd.c starts
bugging that he can't find a resource hob that contains the PHIT Hob.
So now that my setup and problems are clear, the questions:
- Is it ok to define ResourceHob's that cover the PcdSystemMemory range?
- what can I do to fix the PHIT Hob problem? should PcdFdSize +
PcdSystemMemoryUefiRegionSize be smaller than PcdSystemMemorySize ?
- I took a quick look at ArmVirt where they change the PcdSystemMemory
range at runtime, but they use lots of custom code like their own
MemoryPeiLib, and I think everything but Xen uses PEIM instead of PrePi.
Also as I said I have more than one range so this would work anyway.
Thanks
Michael
next reply other threads:[~2016-08-06 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-06 11:05 Michael Zimmermann [this message]
2016-08-08 8:50 ` ARM PrePI Memory setup recommendations Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-08 9:18 ` Michael Zimmermann
2016-08-08 9:25 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-08 11:34 ` Michael Zimmermann
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