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* [staging/branch]: CdePkg - C Development Environment Package
@ 2019-10-23 20:02 KILIAN_KEGEL
  2019-10-23 22:06 ` Michael D Kinney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: KILIAN_KEGEL @ 2019-10-23 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: devel@edk2.groups.io; +Cc: Kinney, Michael D, Richardson, Brian

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Hi UEFI community,

I’d like to introduce the CdePkg to edk2-staging.


Some time ago I decided to write my own ANSI C Library for UEFI Shell and POST.



The UEFI Shell library (“Torito C Library”) has been production-ready for more than one year.

The POST version of the library (“CdeLib”) is not yet fully tested.



I will be demonstrating my verification procedure in the upcoming weeks on EDK2 STAGING  https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/tree/CdePkg



Currently there are 3 examples implemented:

  1.  argvc: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/CdePkg/CdeValidationPkg/HOSTED_ENV/argcv/main.c#L57

argc/argv handling according to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a1y7w461.aspx

  1.  systeminterfacePEI: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/CdePkg/CdeValidationPkg/SYSTEM_IF/systeminterfacePEI/main.c#L57

demonstration, how PeiServices and FileHandle are passed into main()

  1.  systeminterfaceDXE: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/CdePkg/CdeValidationPkg/SYSTEM_IF/systeminterfaceDXE/main.c#L57

demonstration, how SystemTable and ImageHandle are passed into main()



Upcoming next demonstration will be the clock() function end of this week



The idea is to bring the ANSI C Library interface into POST drivers.

This will:

  1.  ease porting tasks
  2.  allow cross development
  3.  allow developers to focus on their aims, because they aren’t forced to keep in mind a lot of additional info (e.g. RShiftU64)
  4.  provide all intrisics to allow the compiler to be a “C compiler”

(e.g. char buffer[256] = { 1 };)



What is CdePkg and Torito C Library?

  *   CdePkg and Torito C Library are a one man show / after work party, that is owned and written solely by myself
  *   CdePkg is a reference implementation only for Microsoft C compiler
  *   CdePkg is a feasibility study
  *   CdePkg is the successor of Torito C, based on the same source code
  *   CdePkg C Development Environment is similar to  MdePkg Module Development Environment

but guarantees  that the C compiler is always fully usable (all intrinsics available) and the C90/C95 standard library is always available



What are the design goals?

  *   to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, without using any public source code from GNU, BSD, Watcom
  *   completeness: full blown C90 + C95 support, as lowest common denominator
  *   tailored for UEFI: small code size, for UEFI-POST-driver uses a C-Library-Driver, that contains core/worker functions for realloc() ==  malloc() and free(),

entire printf()-family, entire scanf()-family.

UEFI-POST-driver just uses small wrapper functions to run the C-Library-Driver code.

  *   stable, exact, chipset independent TSC based clock() with CLOCKS_PER_SEC == 1000
  *   complete set of the Microsoft C-compiler intrinsic functions
  *   ROM-able! Runs with stack but w/o any static storage duration in .data segment, e.g. for rand(), strtok(), tmpfile()

This is required for early PEI before memory sizing, when PEI-images run directly out of flash

  *   Microsoft (bug) compatible (as far as possible)

     *   use original Microsoft header files for UEFI Shell Apps created in VS2019
     *   allow expensive debugging tasks of ANSI C .EFI applications in Visual Studio in its Windows NT counter part
     *   to save my lifetime writing a documentation https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/tree/CdePkg/implemented.md#validation-status

  *   all the above in one single C-Library CdeLib.lib


CdePkg shall be adjusted to other compilers/tool chains too, once it is feature-complete and accepted by the UEFI community.
As long as it is for Microsoft VS2019 only.

CdePkg README.md is here:  <https://github.com/MinnowWare/CdePkg#cdepkg>  https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/tree/CdePkg#cdepkg
CdePkg HOWTO is here: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/CdePkg/README.md#howto
CdeValidationPkg README.md is here: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/CdePkg/CdeValidationPkg/README.md<https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/CdePkg/CdeValidationPkg/README.md#cdevalidationpkg>
CdeValidationPkg HOWTO is here: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/CdePkg/CdeValidationPkg/README.md<https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/blob/CdePkg/CdeValidationPkg/README.md#howto>


HOWTO:

  1.  clone the edk2-staging repository
  2.  checkout CdePkg
  3.  run LAUNCH.BAT
  4.  run build -p EmulatorPkg\EmulatorPkg.dsc -t VS2015x86 -a IA32
  5.  run DBGEMU.BAT to start emulation (EmulatorPkg)
  6.  run build -a IA32 -a X64 -n 5 -t VS2015x86 -b DEBUG -p Vlv2TbltDevicePkg\PlatformPkgX64.dsc
  7.  update MinnowBoard with Build/Vlv2TbltDevicePkgX64\DEBUG_VS2015x86\FV\VLV.fd



Best regards,

Kilian Kegel



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* Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2-rfc] [edk2-devel] CPU hotplug using SMM with QEMU+OVMF
@ 2019-09-05 13:08 Laszlo Ersek
  2019-09-05 15:49 ` [PATCH] q35: lpc: allow to lock down 128K RAM at default SMBASE address Igor Mammedov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Laszlo Ersek @ 2019-09-05 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Igor Mammedov
  Cc: Chen, Yingwen, devel@edk2.groups.io, Phillip Goerl,
	qemu devel list, Alex Williamson, Yao, Jiewen, Nakajima, Jun,
	Kinney, Michael D, Paolo Bonzini, Boris Ostrovsky,
	rfc@edk2.groups.io, Joao Marcal Lemos Martins

On 09/04/19 11:52, Igor Mammedov wrote:

>  it could be stolen RAM + black hole like TSEG, assuming fw can live without RAM(0x30000+128K) range
>   (in this case fwcfg interface would only work for locking down the range)
> 
>  or
> 
>  we can actually have a dedicated SMRAM (like in my earlier RFC),
>  in this case FW can use RAM(0x30000+128K) when SMRAM isn't mapped into RAM address space
>  (in this case fwcfg would be used to temporarily map SMRAM into normal RAM and unmap/lock
>   after SMI relocation handler was initialized).
> 
> If possible I'd prefer a simpler TSEG like variant.

I think TSEG-like behavior is between these two. That is, I believe we
should have explicit open/close/lock operations. And, when the range is
closed (meaning, closed+unlocked, or closed+locked), then the black hole
should take effect for code that's not running in SMM.

Put differently, its like the second choice, except the range never
appears as normal RAM. "When SMRAM isn't mapped into RAM address space",
then the address range shows "nothing" (black hole).


Regarding "fw can live without RAM(0x30000+128K) range" -- do you mean
whether the firmware could use another RAM area for fw_cfg DMA?

If that's the question, then I wouldn't worry about it. I'd remove the
0x30000+128K range from the memory map, so the fw_cfg stuff (or anything
else) would never allocate memory from the range. It's much more
concerning to me however how the SMM infrastructure would deal with a
hole in the memory map right there.

Thanks
Laszlo

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