// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 #pragma once #ifndef SCHBOOT_H #define SCHBOOT_H // The loader/kernel hand-off, in one place. // // Included by kernel/arch/x86_64/entry.S and by boot/uefi/main.c, so the two // cannot disagree about the magic or the layout. Defining it twice is exactly // how a loader ends up scanning for bytes the kernel never wrote — the first // attempt here searched for "SCH6" while the assembler had stored 0x53434836, // which lands in the file as "6HCS". // // Keep this header assembler-safe: no typedefs, no structs outside the C // guard, nothing entry.S cannot preprocess. // Scanned for in the first 16 KB of the kernel image, 8-byte aligned, exactly // as the BIOS loader scans for the multiboot magic. Followed by a little-endian // 64-bit physical address: the kernel's 64-bit entry point. // // The values spell "SCH6" "4BOO" when stored little-endian, which is what // makes them findable by eye in a hex dump of the image. #define SCH64_MAGIC0 0x36484353 /* "SCH6" */ #define SCH64_MAGIC1 0x4f4f4234 /* "4BOO" */ // --------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The hand-off block. // // One page of low memory that a loader fills in and the kernel reads. Every // field below was previously #defined in whichever file happened to need it -- // five of them, across two loaders and two kernel files -- which is the same // hazard as defining the magic twice, only quieter: nothing breaks until one // copy moves. // // 0x30000 is clear of stage2 (loaded at 0x7E00 and well under 0xA000), the // multiboot kernel-search buffer at 0x10000-0x14000, and the kernel's own load // address at 0x100000. // // Both loaders write it, so a field's meaning must not depend on which one did. // Where they genuinely differ -- the BIOS path knows what medium it booted // from, UEFI does not -- the field is defined as "0 when unknown" rather than // left for the reader to guess. #define SCHBOOT_BASE 0x30000 // A VBE mode info block, 256 bytes. The UEFI loader fills the same four fields // out of GOP rather than translating a structure it never saw, so the kernel // cannot tell which firmware booted it. #define SCHBOOT_VBE_INFO (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x000) #define SCHBOOT_VBE_STRIDE (SCHBOOT_VBE_INFO + 16) /* uint16, bytes/line */ #define SCHBOOT_VBE_WIDTH (SCHBOOT_VBE_INFO + 18) /* uint16 */ #define SCHBOOT_VBE_HEIGHT (SCHBOOT_VBE_INFO + 20) /* uint16 */ #define SCHBOOT_VBE_BPP (SCHBOOT_VBE_INFO + 25) /* uint8 */ #define SCHBOOT_VBE_LFB (SCHBOOT_VBE_INFO + 40) /* uint32, physical */ // Non-zero if the loader was asked for a verbose boot. #define SCHBOOT_VERBOSE_FLAG (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x100) // What the system booted from. SCHBOOT_MEDIA_CD matters because the ISO path // reads through ATAPI rather than ATA; 0 means "not stated", which is what the // UEFI loader leaves, since it does not read the kernel through either. #define SCHBOOT_MEDIA_FLAG (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x101) // Remote debugging, chosen at the boot menu. // // A byte, set by the loader when somebody picks it out of the F8 menu, read by // the kernel and published as /proc/bootdebug so that schinit can act on it. // // **It exists because the machines that need debugging are the ones that // cannot be debugged.** A laptop has no serial port, so a kernel that stops // before it can draw has nowhere to say why; the answer is a debugger reachable // over the network, and the answer to "when should that be listening" cannot be // "always" -- schdbgd can read the process table, and a listener nobody asked // for is not a thing to ship. Choosing it at the boot menu is a deliberate act // by somebody standing at the machine, which is the strongest consent this // system can ask for and the weakest one that is any use on hardware that will // not boot. // // Zero on every ordinary boot, including every boot of a build made without // DEBUG=1 -- where the menu entry does not exist and nothing can set it. #define SCHBOOT_DEBUG_FLAG (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x102) #define SCHBOOT_MEDIA_CD 1 // Real-mode spelling of the same byte, for cdboot.S which has no 32-bit // addressing yet. Segment and offset, not a flat address. #define SCHBOOT_MEDIA_SEG 0x3000 #define SCHBOOT_MEDIA_OFF 0x101 // The E820 memory map: a uint32 count, then that many 24-byte entries. Capped // at 32 so a pathological firmware cannot run past the buffer; the map ends at // 0x508, which is what leaves 0x600 free below. #define SCHBOOT_E820_COUNT (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x200) #define SCHBOOT_E820_MAP (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x208) /* 40, not 32. The map lives at SCHBOOT_E820_MAP (BASE+0x208) and the next * field is SCHBOOT_RSDP_ADDR at BASE+0x600, so there are 1016 bytes and each * entry is 24 -- 42 fit. Real UEFI firmware produces far more descriptors than * QEMU's, and the headroom costs nothing that was being used. */ #define SCHBOOT_E820_MAX 40 // Where the loader leaves the ACPI RSDP, as a little-endian 64-bit physical // address. Zero means "not provided, go and look for it yourself". // // The kernel's own search scans the EBDA and 0xE0000-0x100000, which is a BIOS // convention. UEFI publishes the RSDP in its configuration table instead and is // under no obligation to leave a copy anywhere in particular; OVMF does not. // Without it the kernel finds no MADT, so no IOAPIC, so no interrupt routing -- // the machine boots to a prompt on polled serial output and then ignores every // key, which looks like a broken console rather than a missing table. // #define SCHBOOT_RSDP_ADDR (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x600) // A console typeface, read off the boot volume by the loader. // // Zero length means "there was none" and the kernel uses the one linked into // its own image. That fallback is not a degraded mode: an early panic has to // be readable, and the only font guaranteed to exist before any filesystem // does is the one in the image. // // **Loaded by the loader rather than by the kernel**, which is the whole // design decision here. The kernel could read the file itself once the root // filesystem is mounted -- but the console is drawing before that, so // switching then means re-measuring the cell and re-laying out every terminal // mid-boot. That wipes the kernel log off the screen at exactly the moment a // machine being brought up for the first time needs it. Choosing the font // before the first line is drawn costs one file read and changes nothing // afterwards. // // The pages are allocated as EfiReservedMemoryType, so the E820 handoff marks // them reserved and the page allocator never hands them out -- the font is // used *in place*, and nothing in the kernel has to find room for 100 KB of // contiguous memory. #define SCHBOOT_FONT_ADDR (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x608) /* uint64, physical */ #define SCHBOOT_FONT_LEN (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x610) /* uint32, bytes */ // The display, described by the loader in its own words rather than in VBE's. // // The VBE mode-info block above is a *BIOS* structure, and the UEFI loader has // been filling one in because the kernel already knew how to read it. Three of // its fields cannot describe a real machine: // // - the framebuffer address is **32 bits**. A laptop with a discrete GPU // routinely puts its aperture above 4 GB, and the loader was casting // `(UINT32)gop->Mode->FrameBufferBase` -- so the splash was drawn into a // truncated address, nothing appeared, and the firmware's own text cursor // was left blinking on an otherwise black screen. That is the whole of the // "it boots to a white underscore" report. // - the stride is 16 bits, which runs out at 16383 pixels of 32-bit colour. // - there is nowhere to say whether the pixels are RGBX or BGRX, and GOP // reports both. // // So the UEFI path says it properly. The VBE block is still written, for the // BIOS loader and for any kernel that has not been taught to look here; a // non-zero FB_BASE means this block is authoritative and the other is a copy. // // FB_BASE is *physical*, and deliberately not translated: above 4 GB it is // outside the kernel's direct map and has to be ioremap()ed, which cannot // happen until there are page tables to put it in. #define SCHBOOT_FB_BASE (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x618) /* uint64, physical */ #define SCHBOOT_FB_SIZE (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x620) /* uint64, bytes */ #define SCHBOOT_FB_WIDTH (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x628) /* uint32, pixels */ #define SCHBOOT_FB_HEIGHT (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x62C) /* uint32, pixels */ #define SCHBOOT_FB_STRIDE (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x630) /* uint32, bytes */ // 0 = RGBX8888, 1 = BGRX8888 -- the two GOP formats with a linear layout, in // EFI's own numbering. Everything in the kernel draws 0x00RRGGBB, which is // BGRX in memory, so format 0 is the one that needs its channels swapped. #define SCHBOOT_FB_FORMAT (SCHBOOT_BASE + 0x634) /* uint32 */ #ifndef __ASSEMBLER__ struct sch64_header { unsigned int magic0; // SCH64_MAGIC0 unsigned int magic1; // SCH64_MAGIC1 unsigned long long entry; // physical address, entered in long mode }; #endif /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */ #endif /* SCHBOOT_H */