x86_64 port and BSP (GSoC 2018)

[Chris Johns]

On 20/03/2018 18:10, Amaan Cheval wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:44 AM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>> On 20/03/2018 16:21, Amaan Cheval wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:23 AM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>> On 19/03/2018 18:36, Amaan Cheval wrote:
>>> (Assuming that by tables you meant the Local Vector Table, etc., and not
>>> the ACPI's MADT, which is relevant to SMP in that it contains a list of
>>> LAPICs, thereby letting us find how many cores are available.)
> 
>> I was thinking about the SMP tables. SMP is not part of this work at the
> moment
>> so what ever is needed in this area to make the BSP work. Is the Local
> Vector
>> Table included in the list of tables?
> 
> Oh, did you mean the MP Table / ACPI MADT as mentioned in the 2nd bullet
> here? (From volume 3 of Intel's IA32 and 64 manual.)
> https://i.imgur.com/elZIlfy.png

It has been a while since I looked at this. Is there a table for interrupts and
interrupts beyond the master/slave legacy PICs?

> One of those tables will need to be parsed to configure boot for SMP
> systems correctly, yes. I thought you meant the tables that need to be
> setup for the local APIC to be initialized and used correctly (which is
> also necessary to be able to send Startup Inter-Proessor Interrupts (SIPI)
> for SMP boot to work).

I think interrupts to access to various PCI devices beyond the slave PIC is all
we need for now.

Chris