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| author | Michael Brown | 2010-04-19 21:38:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Brown | 2010-04-20 00:43:48 +0200 |
| commit | 8ffea19225a450f2bde34510d9c2c913ac0c0021 (patch) | |
| tree | b0068a68680a14ffadc9cdf7fe4d264d5fe80e90 /src | |
| parent | [romprefix] Remove .xrom prefix (diff) | |
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[romprefix] Remove .hrom prefix
The .hrom prefix provides an experimental mechanism for reducing
option ROM space usage on systems where PMM allocation fails, by
pretending that PMM allocation succeeded and gave us an address fixed
at compilation time. This is unreliable, and potentially dangerous.
In particular, when multiple gPXE ROMs are present in a system, each
gPXE ROM will assume ownership of the same fixed address, resulting in
undefined behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/Makefile.housekeeping | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/arch/i386/Makefile.pcbios | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/arch/i386/prefix/hromprefix.S | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S | 13 |
4 files changed, 0 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/src/Makefile.housekeeping b/src/Makefile.housekeeping index efd85ea3..a7162e6f 100644 --- a/src/Makefile.housekeeping +++ b/src/Makefile.housekeeping @@ -866,7 +866,6 @@ endif # defined(BIN) # FINALISE_rom = $(MAKEROM) $(MAKEROM_FLAGS) $(TGT_MAKEROM_FLAGS) \ -i$(IDENT) -s 0 $@ -FINALISE_hrom = $(FINALISE_rom) # Some ROMs require specific flags to be passed to makerom.pl # diff --git a/src/arch/i386/Makefile.pcbios b/src/arch/i386/Makefile.pcbios index dcabbdf7..e3c33872 100644 --- a/src/arch/i386/Makefile.pcbios +++ b/src/arch/i386/Makefile.pcbios @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ LDFLAGS += -N --no-check-sections # Media types. # MEDIA += rom -MEDIA += hrom MEDIA += pxe MEDIA += kpxe MEDIA += kkpxe @@ -24,7 +23,6 @@ MEDIA += raw # Padding rules # PAD_rom = $(PADIMG) --blksize=512 --byte=0xff $@ -PAD_hrom = $(PAD_rom) PAD_dsk = $(PADIMG) --blksize=512 $@ PAD_hd = $(PADIMG) --blksize=32768 $@ diff --git a/src/arch/i386/prefix/hromprefix.S b/src/arch/i386/prefix/hromprefix.S deleted file mode 100644 index 03acf1e2..00000000 --- a/src/arch/i386/prefix/hromprefix.S +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -/***************************************************************************** - * ROM prefix that relocates to HIGHMEM_LOADPOINT during POST if PMM allocation - * fails. Intended to be used, with caution, on BIOSes that support PCI3.00 but - * have limited PMM support, such as most AMI BIOSes. - ***************************************************************************** - */ - -FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER ) - -#define SHRINK_WITHOUT_PMM - -#include "romprefix.S" diff --git a/src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S b/src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S index e7d146eb..2d70cd21 100644 --- a/src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S +++ b/src/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S @@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ got_pmm: /* PMM allocation succeeded */ call print_character movw %si, %ax call print_hex_byte -pmm_copy: /* Copy ROM to PMM block */ xorw %ax, %ax movw %ax, %es @@ -364,19 +363,7 @@ pmm_copy: movl %edi, decompress_to /* Shrink ROM */ movb $_prefix_memsz_sect, romheader_size -#ifdef SHRINK_WITHOUT_PMM - jmp pmm_done pmm_fail: - /* Print marker and copy ourselves to high memory */ - movl $HIGHMEM_LOADPOINT, image_source - xorw %di, %di - movb $( '!' ), %al - call print_character - jmp pmm_copy -pmm_done: -#else -pmm_fail: -#endif /* Restore upper register halves */ popal no_pmm: |