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[v2,13/16] x86: coreboot: Document the memory map

Message ID 20210424165534.v2.13.Ib1dccc7a0ad38d4faae3e0a01fd647a35af74ceb@changeid
State Superseded
Delegated to: Bin Meng
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Series misc: Some more misc patches | expand

Commit Message

Simon Glass April 24, 2021, 4:56 a.m. UTC 
Add information about memory usage when U-Boot is started from coreboot.
This is useful when debugging. Also, since coreboot takes a chunk of
memory in the middle of SDRAM for use by PCI devices, it can help avoid
overwriting this with a loaded kernel by accident.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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Changes in v2:
- Convert table to reST format

 doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

Comments

Bin Meng May 10, 2021, 5:49 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 12:57 PM Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Add information about memory usage when U-Boot is started from coreboot.
> This is useful when debugging. Also, since coreboot takes a chunk of
> memory in the middle of SDRAM for use by PCI devices, it can help avoid
> overwriting this with a loaded kernel by accident.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Convert table to reST format
>
>  doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>

Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst b/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
index 9c44c025a48..3792f9e1c8d 100644
--- a/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
+++ b/doc/board/coreboot/coreboot.rst
@@ -50,3 +50,24 @@  works by using a 32-bit SPL binary to switch to 64-bit for running U-Boot. It
 can be useful for running UEFI applications, for example.
 
 This has only been lightly tested.
+
+
+Memory map
+----------
+
+  ==========  ==================================================================
+     Address  Region at that address
+  ==========  ==================================================================
+    ffffffff  Top of ROM (and last byte of 32-bit address space)
+    7a9fd000  Typical top of memory available to U-Boot
+              (use cbsysinfo to see where memory range 'table' starts)
+    10000000  Memory reserved by coreboot for mapping PCI devices
+              (typical size 2151000, includes framebuffer)
+     1920000  CONFIG_SYS_CAR_ADDR, fake Cache-as-RAM memory, used during startup
+     1110000  CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE (start address of U-Boot code, before reloc)
+      110000  CONFIG_BLOBLIST_ADDR (before being relocated)
+      100000  CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR
+       f0000  ACPI tables set up by U-Boot
+              (typically redirects to 7ab10030 or similar)
+         500  Location of coreboot sysinfo table, used during startup
+  ==========  ==================================================================