Until now the kernel was always executing with SP_EL0, as this made the
initial dropping to EL1 a bit easier. This commit changes this behaviour
to use the corresponding SP_ELx for each exception level.
To make sure that the execution of the C++ code can continue, the
current stack pointer is copied into the corresponding SP_ELx just
before dropping an exception level.
This is a separate file that behaves similar to the Prekernel for
x86_64, and makes sure the CPU is dropped to EL1, the MMU is enabled,
and makes sure the CPU is running in high virtual memory. This code then
jumps to the usual init function of the kernel.
As the kernel is now linked at high address in virtual memory, we cannot
use absolute addresses as they refer to high addresses in virtual
memory. At this point in the boot process we are still running with the
MMU off, so we have to make sure the accesses are using physical memory
addresses.
The kernel image grew so much that it wasn't possible to jump to the C++
symbol anymore, since this generated a 'relocation truncated' error when
linking.
As there is no need for a Prekernel on aarch64, the Prekernel code was
moved into Kernel itself. The functionality remains the same.
SERENITY_KERNEL_AND_INITRD in run.sh specifies a kernel and an inital
ramdisk to be used by the emulator. This is needed because aarch64
does not need a Prekernel and the other ones do.
2022-03-12 14:54:12 -08:00
Renamed from Kernel/Prekernel/Arch/aarch64/boot.S (Browse further)
