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3 ; Copyright 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved
4 ; Copyright 2009-2010 Intel Corporation; author: H. Peter Anvin
6 ; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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17 ; Memory layout of segments
20 ; Default to 16-bit code
23 ; Memory below 0800h is reserved for the BIOS and the MBR.
26 ; Text starts at the load address of 07C00h.
32 ; PXELINUX: There are apparently some AMI BIOSes in the field which
33 ; put their BEV stack somewhere below 7C00h (and therefore don't
34 ; handle localboot properly), so avoid that immediate memory region.
35 ; The range that is known to be bad is approximately 75E8..7C00; the
36 ; lower bound is tight.
38 global STACK_LEN, STACK_TOP, STACK_BASE
45 STACK_BASE equ STACK_TOP - STACK_LEN
47 ; The secondary BSS section, above the text; we really wish we could
48 ; just make it follow .bcopy32 or hang off the end,
49 ; but it doesn't seem to work that way.
50 LATEBSS_START equ 0B800h
55 STACK32_LEN equ 64*1024
57 section .stack nobits write align=4096
61 ; The various sections and their relationship
63 ; Use .earlybss for things that MUST be in low memory.
64 section .earlybss nobits write
65 section .config write progbits align=4
66 section .replacestub exec write progbits align=16
67 section .gentextnr exec write nobits align=16
68 section .stack16 write nobits align=16
70 ; Use .bss16 for things that doesn't have to be in low memory;
71 ; .earlybss should be used for things that absolutely have
73 section .bss16 write nobits align=16
76 ; Warning here: RBFG build 22 randomly overwrites
77 ; memory location [0x5680,0x576c), possibly more. It
78 ; seems that it gets confused and screws up the
79 ; pointer to its own internal packet buffer and starts
80 ; writing a received ARP packet into low memory.
81 section .rbfg write nobits
82 RBFG_brainfuck: resb 2048 ; Bigger than an Ethernet packet...
85 section .init exec write progbits align=1
86 section .text16 exec write progbits align=1
87 section .textnr exec nowrite progbits align=1
88 section .bcopyxx.text exec nowrite progbits align=16
89 section .bcopyxx.data noexec write progbits align=16
90 section .data16 noexec write progbits align=16
92 section .adv write nobits align=512
94 ; .uibss contains bss data which is guaranteed to be
95 ; safe to clobber during the loading of the image. This
96 ; is because while loading the primary image we will clobber
97 ; the spillover from the last fractional sector load.
98 section .uibss write nobits align=16
100 section .savedata write nobits align=16
102 ; Symbols from linker script
104 extern __%1_start, __%1_lma, __%1_end
105 extern __%1_len, __%1_dwords
118 extern free_high_memory
125 ; Segment assignments in the bottom 640K
126 ; Keep the low-memory footprint as small as possible... overrun is a hard
130 serial_buf_size equ 4096 ; Should be a power of 2
133 ; Transfer buffer segment: guaranteed to be aligned 64K, used for disk I/O
134 ; One symbol for the segment number, one for the absolute address
137 section .xfer_buf write nobits align=65536
138 global core_xfer_buf:data hidden
139 core_xfer_buf resb 65536
142 ; At the very end, the lowmem heap
145 min_lowmem_heap equ 65536