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system76-coreboot/payloads/libpayload
Julius Werner 5c0e72ff99 libpayload: arm64: Make exception handling closer to arm32
This patch reworks the arm64 exception handling to be more similar to
how it works on arm32. This includes a bunch of features like actually
saving and restoring more exception state in the exception_state
structure and supporting the same sort of partial reentrancy that is
useful for GDB. Since there's no instruction to directly load into or
store out of SP on arm64, we can't do quite the same thing where we use
that to read an exception_state_ptr variable right after exception entry
when no other register is available. But we can do something very
similar by (ab-)using the "high" stack pointer (SP_EL2) as a pointer to
the exception_state struct and providing a function to change it.

Change-Id: Ia16a1124be1824392a309ae1f4cb031547d184c1
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/29018
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
2018-10-12 20:17:28 +00:00
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libpayload README
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libpayload is a minimal library to support standalone payloads
that can be booted with firmware like coreboot. It handles the setup
code, and provides common C library symbols such as malloc() and printf().

Note: This is _not_ a standard library for use with an operating system,
rather it's only useful for coreboot payload development!
See https://www.coreboot.org for details on coreboot.


Installation
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 $ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git

 $ cd coreboot/payloads/libpayload

 $ make menuconfig

 $ make

 $ sudo make install (optional, will install into /opt per default)

As libpayload is for 32bit x86 systems only, you might have to install the
32bit libgcc version, otherwise your payloads will fail to compile.
On Debian systems you'd do 'apt-get install gcc-multilib' for example.


Usage
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Here's an example of a very simple payload (hello.c) and how to build it:

 #include <libpayload.h>

 int main(void)
 {
     printf("Hello, world!\n");
     return 0;
 }

Building the payload using the 'lpgcc' compiler wrapper:

 $ lpgcc -o hello.elf hello.c

Please see the sample/ directory for details.


Website and Mailing List
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The main website is https://www.coreboot.org/Libpayload.

For additional information, patches, and discussions, please join the
coreboot mailing list at https://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist, where most
libpayload developers are subscribed.


Copyright and License
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See LICENSES.