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Date:	Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:34:37 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Andres Salomon" <dilinger@...ued.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Joseph Fannin" <jfannin@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jordan.crouse@....com, "Mitch Bradley" <wmb@...mworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] OLPC: Add support for calling into Open Firmware

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net> wrote:
>
>  This adds 32-bit support for calling into OFW from the kernel.  It's useful
>  for querying the firmware for misc hardware information, fetching the device
>  tree, etc.
>
>  There's potentially no reason why other platforms couldn't use this, but
>  currently OLPC is the main user of it.
>
>  This work was originally done by Mitch Bradley.
>
>  Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org>
>  ---
>   arch/x86/Kconfig          |    8 +++++
>   arch/x86/kernel/Makefile  |    1 +
>   arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S |   27 ++++++++++++++++
>   arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c     |   75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/asm-x86/ofw.h     |   50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/asm-x86/setup.h   |    1 +
>   6 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c
>   create mode 100644 include/asm-x86/ofw.h
>
>  diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>  index 3b9089b..ce56105 100644
>  --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>  +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>  @@ -661,6 +661,14 @@ config I8K
>           Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on a Dell Inspiron 8000.
>           Say N otherwise.
>
>  +config OPEN_FIRMWARE
>  +       bool "Support for Open Firmware"
>  +       default y if OLPC
>  +       ---help---
>  +         This option adds support for the implementation of Open Firmware
>  +         that is used on the OLPC XO laptop.
>  +         If unsure, say N here.
>  +
>   config X86_REBOOTFIXUPS
>         def_bool n
>         prompt "Enable X86 board specific fixups for reboot"
>  diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
>  index 9575754..d33600e 100644
>  --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
>  +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
>  @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_TRAMPOLINE)  += trampoline_$(BITS).o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE)      += mpparse_$(BITS).o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC)   += apic_$(BITS).o nmi_$(BITS).o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC)      += io_apic_$(BITS).o
>  +obj-$(CONFIG_OPEN_FIRMWARE)    += ofw.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS) += reboot_fixups_32.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC)            += machine_kexec_$(BITS).o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC)            += relocate_kernel_$(BITS).o crash.o
>  diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
>  index 74d87ea..c9d2d00 100644
>  --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
>  +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
>  @@ -132,6 +132,33 @@ ENTRY(startup_32)
>         movsl
>   1:
>
>  +#ifdef CONFIG_OPEN_FIRMWARE
>  +/*
>  + * If Open Firmware booted us, save the OFW client interface callback address
>  + * and preserve the OFW page mappings by priming the kernel's new page
>  + * directory area with a copy of the OFW page directory.  That lets OFW stay
>  + * resident in high memory (high in both the virtual and physical spaces)
>  + * for at least long enough to copy out the device tree.
>  + */
>  +       movl $pa(boot_params + OFW_INFO_OFFSET), %ebp
>  +       cmpl $0x2057464F, (%ebp)                /* Magic number "OFW " */
>  +       jne 4f
>  +
>  +       mov 0x8(%ebp), %eax                     /* Save callback address */
>  +       mov %eax, pa(call_firmware)
>  +
>  +       /* Copy the OFW pdir into swapper_pg_dir */
>  +       movl %esi, %edx         /* save %esi */
>  +       movl $pa(swapper_pg_dir), %edi
>  +       movl %cr3, %esi         /* Source is current pg_dir base address */
>  +       movl $1024, %ecx        /* Number of page directory entries */
>  +       rep
>  +       movsl
>  +       movl %edx, %esi         /* restore %esi */
>  +4:
>  +
>  +#endif
>  +
>   #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
>         /* This is can only trip for a broken bootloader... */
>         cmpw $0x207, pa(boot_params + BP_version)
>  diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c
>  new file mode 100644
>  index 0000000..14036aa
>  --- /dev/null
>  +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ofw.c
>  @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
>  +/*
>  + * Open Firmware client interface for 32-bit systems.
>  + *
>  + * Copyright (c) 2007  Mitch Bradley <wmb@...mworks.com>
>  + * Copyright (c) 2007-2008  Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org>
>  + *
>  + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>  + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>  + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>  + * (at your option) any later version.
>  + */
>  +
>  +#include <linux/kernel.h>
>  +#include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  +#include <linux/module.h>
>  +#include <asm/ofw.h>
>  +
>  +/*
>  + * This code is intended to be portable to any 32-bit Open Firmware
>  + * implementation with a standard client interface that can be
>  + * called when Linux is running.

how about changing to ofw_32.c?

YH
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