[[RFC] 01/14] Add a tool to activate barebox as a boot loader on x86 architectures

[Juergen Beisert]

On Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:25:28PM +0100, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> > To use barebox as a BIOS based bootloader for x86 architectures, the
> > binary must be patched to get it bootstrapped at runtime. The 'setupmbr'
> > tool installs the barebox-binary to the given device node or image file
> > and patch it in accordance to the needed sector information at runtime.
> >
> > Signed-off by: Juergen Beisert <jbe at pengutronix.de>
> >
> > ---
> >  Doxyfile                    |    3
> >  scripts/Makefile            |    4
> >  scripts/setupmbr/Makefile   |    4
> >  scripts/setupmbr/arch.h     |   55 +++
> >  scripts/setupmbr/setupmbr.c |  705
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 769
> > insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: u-boot-2.0.0-rc10/scripts/Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > --- u-boot-2.0.0-rc10.orig/scripts/Makefile
> > +++ u-boot-2.0.0-rc10/scripts/Makefile
> > @@ -24,5 +24,7 @@ hostprogs-y += unifdef
> >  #subdir-$(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) += genksyms
> >  subdir-y                     += mod
> >
> > +subdir-$(CONFIG_X86)             += setupmbr
> > +
> >  # Let clean descend into subdirs
> > -subdir-	+= basic kconfig
> > +subdir-	+= basic kconfig setupmbr
> > Index: u-boot-2.0.0-rc10/scripts/setupmbr/Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ u-boot-2.0.0-rc10/scripts/setupmbr/Makefile
> > @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> > +HOST_EXTRACFLAGS=-I$(srctree)
> > +
> > +hostprogs-y  := setupmbr
> > +always       := $(hostprogs-y)
> > Index: u-boot-2.0.0-rc10/scripts/setupmbr/arch.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ u-boot-2.0.0-rc10/scripts/setupmbr/arch.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
> > +
> > +/* we need the one from the host */
> > +#include <endian.h>
> > +#include <stdint.h>
> > +
> > +/* Byte-orders.  */
> > +#define swap16(x)	\
> > +({ \
> > +   uint16_t _x = (x); \
> > +   (uint16_t) ((_x << 8) | (_x >> 8)); \
> > +})
> > +
> > +#define swap32(x)	\
> > +({ \
> > +   uint32_t _x = (x); \
> > +   (uint32_t) ((_x << 24) \
> > +                    | ((_x & (uint32_t) 0xFF00UL) << 8) \
> > +                    | ((_x & (uint32_t) 0xFF0000UL) >> 8) \
> > +                    | (_x >> 24)); \
> > +})
> > +
> > +#define swap64(x)	\
> > +({ \
> > +   uint64_t _x = (x); \
> > +   (uint64_t) ((_x << 56) \
> > +                    | ((_x & (uint64_t) 0xFF00ULL) << 40) \
> > +                    | ((_x & (uint64_t) 0xFF0000ULL) << 24) \
> > +                    | ((_x & (uint64_t) 0xFF000000ULL) << 8) \
> > +                    | ((_x & (uint64_t) 0xFF00000000ULL) >> 8) \
> > +                    | ((_x & (uint64_t) 0xFF0000000000ULL) >> 24) \
> > +                    | ((_x & (uint64_t) 0xFF000000000000ULL) >> 40) \
> > +                    | (_x >> 56)); \
> > +})
> > +
> > +#if __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN
> > +
> > +/* Our target is a ia32 machine, always little endian */
> > +
> > +# define host2target_16(x)	swap16(x)
> > +# define host2target_32(x)	swap32(x)
> > +# define host2target_64(x)	swap64(x)
> > +# define target2host_16(x)	swap16(x)
> > +# define target2host_32(x)	swap32(x)
> > +# define target2host_64(x)	swap64(x)
> > +
> > +#else
> > +
> > +# define host2target_16(x)	(x)
> > +# define host2target_32(x)	(x)
> > +# define host2target_64(x)	(x)
> > +# define target2host_16(x)	(x)
> > +# define target2host_32(x)	(x)
> > +# define target2host_64(x)	(x)
>
> endian.h defines htole[16|32|64] which should be what you need here.

Hmmm, I found these defines in a glibc-2.10, but not in a libc-2.8 based 
system. Seems they where added between these revisions. Can we force a 
glibc-2.10 system, to build this tool?

jbe

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