MFaltix:

Add support for Pre-Boot Virtual Memory (PBVM) to the loader.

PBVM allows us to link the kernel at a fixed virtual address without
having to make any assumptions about the physical memory layout. On
the SGI Altix 350 for example, there's no usuable physical memory
below 192GB. Also, the PBVM allows us to control better where we're
going to physically load the kernel and its modules so that we can
make sure we load the kernel in memory that's close to the BSP.

The PBVM is managed by a simple page table. The minimum size of the
page table is 4KB (EFI page size) and the maximum is currently set
to 1MB. A page in the PBVM is 64KB, as that's the maximum alignment
one can specify in a linker script. The bottom line is that PBVM is
between 64KB and 8GB in size.

The loader maps the PBVM page table at a fixed virtual address and
using a single translations. The PBVM itself is also mapped using a
single translation for a maximum of 32MB.

While here, increase the heap in the EFI loader from 512KB to 2MB
and set the stage for supporting relocatable modules.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sys/boot/ia64/efi/version b/sys/boot/ia64/efi/version
index a31d87d..3a947c8 100644
--- a/sys/boot/ia64/efi/version
+++ b/sys/boot/ia64/efi/version
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ $FreeBSD$
 NOTE ANY CHANGES YOU MAKE TO THE BOOTBLOCKS HERE.  The format of this
 file is important.  Make sure the current version number is on line 6.
 
+3.0:	Add support for PBVM.
 2.2:	Create direct mapping based on start address instead of mapping
 	first 256M.
 2.1:	Add support for "-dev <part>" argument parsing.