commit | 56776a1ab39333c791903e0a7e79e8fb51d3162d | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz> | Thu May 19 11:31:10 2022 +0200 |
committer | Felix Held <felix-coreboot@felixheld.de> | Thu Sep 15 14:47:52 2022 +0000 |
tree | ffce5f6c84b0643cf6eaf0b288d2566d30796064 | |
parent | 576861994ea5011c3a836a826b8189ef79c366cb [diff] |
soc/amd: Do SMM relocation via MSR AMD CPUs have a convenient MSR that allows to set the SMBASE in the save state without ever entering SMM (e.g. at the default 0x30000 address). This has been a feature in all AMD CPUs since at least AMD K8. This allows to do relocation in parallel in ramstage and without setting up a relocation handler, which likely results in a speedup. The more cores the higher the speedup as relocation was happening sequentially. On a 4 core AMD picasso system this results in 33ms boot speedup. TESTED on google/vilboz (Picasso) with CONFIG_SMI_DEBUG: verify that SMM is correctly relocated with the BSP correctly entering the smihandler. Change-Id: I9729fb94ed5c18cfd57b8098c838c08a04490e4b Signed-off-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/64872 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Felix Held <felix-coreboot@felixheld.de>
coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload.
With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required.
coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS.
After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any desired "payload" can be started by coreboot.
See https://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads.
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