Re: Passing Xen memory map and resource map to OVMF

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:51:10AM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Currently OVMF determines memory size by consulting CMOS, then it makes
> > up memory map of its own.
> >
> > Consulting memory size by reading CMOS limits the RAM size to 1TB as
> > there's only 3 bytes from 0x5b-0x5d in CMOS, where the upper memory size
> > is stored.
> >
> > And from Xen's point of view, OVMF should use the memory mapped passed
> > by hypervisor (from hvmloader) instead of making up its own.
> >
> > To solve the above two problems all in one go, I plan to pass necessary
> > information (io resource, mmio resource) to OVMF from Xen.  I will
> > construct the table / structure in hvmloader then hook up platform pei
> > code when OVMF is running on Xen.
> >
> > The first thing that comes in mind is to reuse E820 table for memory map
> > plus some extra fields for io / mmio resources. But I guess UEFI is the
> > new world so stuffs like E820 from old world will be less popular. Any
> > suggestion on existing table / data structure I can use?
> 
> Is OvmfPkg/Include/Guid/XenInfo.h helpful on the OVMF side?
> 

It needs to be extended to hold more information.

> Regarding E820 structures, I guess I'd suggest copying the E820
> structures from
> IntelFrameworkModulePkg/Csm/LegacyBiosDxe/LegacyBiosInterface.h into a
> new OvmfPkg/Include/IndustryStandard/E820.h file.
> 

Thanks for the pointer.

Wei.

> -Jordan