Deprecate using hints.acpi.0.rsdp to communicate the RSDP to the

system. This uses the hints mechnanism. This mostly works today
because when there's no static hints (the default), this value can be
fetched from the hint. When there is a static hints file, the hint
passed from the boot loader to the kernel is ignored, but for the BIOS
case we're able to find it anyway. However, with UEFI, the fallback
doesn't work, so we get a panic instead.

Switch to acpi.rsdp and use TUNABLE_ULONG_FETCH instead. Continue to
generate the old values to allow for transitions. In addition, fall
back to the old method if the new method isn't present.

Add comments about all this.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5866

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sys/boot/efi/loader/arch/amd64/elf64_freebsd.c b/sys/boot/efi/loader/arch/amd64/elf64_freebsd.c
index 1b95cde..a1096d9 100644
--- a/sys/boot/efi/loader/arch/amd64/elf64_freebsd.c
+++ b/sys/boot/efi/loader/arch/amd64/elf64_freebsd.c
@@ -101,6 +101,17 @@ elf64_exec(struct preloaded_file *fp)
 	char			buf[24];
 	int			revision;
 
+	/*
+	 * Report the RSDP to the kernel. While this can be found with
+	 * a BIOS boot, the RSDP may be elsewhere when booted from UEFI.
+	 * The old code used the 'hints' method to communite this to
+	 * the kernel. However, while convenient, the 'hints' method
+	 * is fragile and does not work when static hints are compiled
+	 * into the kernel. Instead, move to setting different tunables
+	 * that start with acpi. The old 'hints' can be removed before
+	 * we branch for FreeBSD 12.
+	 */
+
 	rsdp = efi_get_table(&acpi20_guid);
 	if (rsdp == NULL) {
 		rsdp = efi_get_table(&acpi_guid);
@@ -108,23 +119,29 @@ elf64_exec(struct preloaded_file *fp)
 	if (rsdp != NULL) {
 		sprintf(buf, "0x%016llx", (unsigned long long)rsdp);
 		setenv("hint.acpi.0.rsdp", buf, 1);
+		setenv("acpi.rsdp", buf, 1);
 		revision = rsdp->Revision;
 		if (revision == 0)
 			revision = 1;
 		sprintf(buf, "%d", revision);
 		setenv("hint.acpi.0.revision", buf, 1);
+		setenv("acpi.revision", buf, 1);
 		strncpy(buf, rsdp->OemId, sizeof(rsdp->OemId));
 		buf[sizeof(rsdp->OemId)] = '\0';
 		setenv("hint.acpi.0.oem", buf, 1);
+		setenv("acpi.oem", buf, 1);
 		sprintf(buf, "0x%016x", rsdp->RsdtPhysicalAddress);
 		setenv("hint.acpi.0.rsdt", buf, 1);
+		setenv("acpi.rsdt", buf, 1);
 		if (revision >= 2) {
 			/* XXX extended checksum? */
 			sprintf(buf, "0x%016llx",
 			    (unsigned long long)rsdp->XsdtPhysicalAddress);
 			setenv("hint.acpi.0.xsdt", buf, 1);
+			setenv("acpi.xsdt", buf, 1);
 			sprintf(buf, "%d", rsdp->Length);
 			setenv("hint.acpi.0.xsdt_length", buf, 1);
+			setenv("acpi.xsdt_length", buf, 1);
 		}
 	}