The POR is firmly to use an OS allocated context buffer now so the
build flag that allows firmware to allocate the context buffer
is removed along with supporting code.
Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
Cc: Kang Gao <kang.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Kubacki <michael.kubacki@microsoft.com>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
Cc: Benjamin You <benjamin.you@intel.com>
Cc: Liu Yun <yun.y.liu@intel.com>
Cc: Ankit Sinha <ankit.sinha@intel.com>
Cc: Nate DeSimone <nathaniel.l.desimone@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kubacki <michael.kubacki@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Acked-by: Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Ankit Sinha <ankit.sinha@intel.com>
Per latest design direction, we've abandoned treating the PRM Module
Update Lock as an exported object. There was concern sharing the PRM
module address space (where the lock structure resided in a data section)
with the OS kernel mode driver. The lock will now be entirely maintained
in OS context with interaces to control the lock available to ASL
(for _DSM invocation) and OS native code (for direct call).
Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
Cc: Kang Gao <kang.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Kubacki <michael.kubacki@microsoft.com>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
Cc: Benjamin You <benjamin.you@intel.com>
Cc: Liu Yun <yun.y.liu@intel.com>
Cc: Ankit Sinha <ankit.sinha@intel.com>
Cc: Nate DeSimone <nathaniel.l.desimone@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kubacki <michael.kubacki@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Acked-by: Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Ankit Sinha <ankit.sinha@intel.com>
There's currently two approaches being considered for how to allocate the
context buffer passed to PRM handlers:
1. The context buffer is allocated and populated in firmware. As such, the
FW converts all pointers internal to the buffer to virtual memory
addresses at the virtual address change event. A single context buffer
pointer is given to the OS via the PRM ACPI table and the OS converts
this single physical address to a virtual address when it passes the
context buffer as a pointer to PRM handlers.
2. The context buffer is allocated and populated in the OS. The OS gets
all the information needed to populate the context buffer from other
pre-existing resources (mainly physical addresses in the PRM ACPI
table). The OS converts all the physical addresses to virtual addresses,
allocates the context buffer instances, and fills in the information.
The OS passes the context buffer virtual address to PRM handlers.
The prior behavior was (1). The current POR behavior has moved to (2).
Until (2) is used more widely, it can be kept around with fairly minimal
overhead via a build flag in a few places.
So the default behavior is now (2) (the expected permanent behavior) with
(1) easily enabled by defining "ALLOCATE_CONTEXT_BUFFER_IN_FW" in the
compiler defined macros. A DSC define was added in PrmPkg.dsc to set this
compiler macro in the package build.
At some point in the future, all code (and some peripheral code)
surrounded with this build flag can be removed if (2) is fully
decided upon.
Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
Cc: Kang Gao <kang.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Kubacki <michael.kubacki@microsoft.com>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
Cc: Benjamin You <benjamin.you@intel.com>
Cc: Liu Yun <yun.y.liu@intel.com>
Cc: Ankit Sinha <ankit.sinha@intel.com>
Cc: Nate DeSimone <nathaniel.l.desimone@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kubacki <michael.kubacki@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Acked-by: Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Ankit Sinha <ankit.sinha@intel.com>
REF:https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3812
Adds the following content to Readme.md:
1. A basic explanation of how the package is organized and where to
find important items.
2. Adds instructions for building PrmPkg with edk2.
3. Adds a "Build Flags" section to the build instructions to explain
any build flags that may be passed to influence the build.
The final package will not have any build flags. A reasonable
number are temporarily used to test different flows until final
decisions are made as to which flow to keep.
Most notably, only Visual Studio tool chains are currently
supported due to the modifications made to support export tables.
Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
Cc: Kang Gao <kang.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Kubacki <michael.kubacki@microsoft.com>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
Cc: Benjamin You <benjamin.you@intel.com>
Cc: Liu Yun <yun.y.liu@intel.com>
Cc: Ankit Sinha <ankit.sinha@intel.com>
Cc: Nate DeSimone <nathaniel.l.desimone@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kubacki <michael.kubacki@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Acked-by: Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Ankit Sinha <ankit.sinha@intel.com>
Michael Kubacki