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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Bochs/32-Bit BIOS] [1/3] 32bit gateway for the Boch

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [Bochs/32-Bit BIOS] [1/3] 32bit gateway for the Bochs BIOS
From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:42:09 -0500
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This patch adds a 32bit gateway to the Bochs BIOS. The 32 bit code is
compiled with gcc and linked into the hvmloader as a byte-array.
Hvmloader allocates memory (rounded up to next 64kb) from the e820 table
below 4GB, copies and relocates the 32bit code in the allocated area and
copies a jumptable (located in a section '.biosjumptable') pointing to
the 'exported' functions into the Bochs BIOS's memory area to link the
two code sections. The memory area has been reserved and can be
identified with the signature '___JMPT'.

In the Bochs BIOS only stub functions are provided. These load the index
of a particular function in the jump table, switch to protected mode and
call the function in the high memory area.  The stack is prepared such
that functions compiled by gcc can just pick the parameters from the
stack as usual - this means that the 16bit real-mode return address is
taken off the stack. The stub functions should have the same signature
as those in 32bit space. For ABI compatibility reasons parameters inside
the Bochs BIOS stubs should all be 32bit wide.

This patch includes a test function that calls three gcc-compiled
functions in the high memory area and displays their success status.
Simple tests are done doing multiplication and addition of 32-bit
numbers and reading and modification of a static variable. These
functions test the interface and the relocation code. The test code is
removed in patch part 3.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>

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