;; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; ;; Copyright 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved ;; Copyright 2010 Intel Corporation; author: H. Peter Anvin ;; ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 53 Temple Place Ste 330, ;; Boston MA 02111-1307, USA; either version 2 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version; incorporated herein by reference. ;; ;; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; ;; cpuinit.inc ;; ;; CPU-dependent initialization and related checks. ;; check_escapes: mov ah,02h ; Check keyboard flags int 16h mov [KbdFlags],al ; Save for boot prompt check test al,04h ; Ctrl->skip 386 check jnz skip_checks ; ; Now check that there is sufficient low (DOS) memory ; ; NOTE: Linux doesn't use all of real_mode_seg, but we use the same ; segment for COMBOOT images, which can use all 64K ; dosram_k equ (real_mode_seg+0x1000) >> 6 ; Minimum DOS memory (K) int 12h cmp ax,dosram_k jae enough_ram mov si,err_noram call writestr_early jmp kaboom enough_ram: skip_checks: ; ; Detect old versions Xen HVM and disable halt ; Xen HVM older than version 3.3 might be using vmxassist, which breaks ; if HLT is executed in real mode. ; ; Note: in Syslinux 4, we should probably just execute the HLT in ; protected mode instead. ; check_xen: pushfd pushfd pop eax mov edx,eax xor eax,(1 << 21) ; ID flag push eax popfd pushfd pop eax popfd xor eax,edx and eax,(1 << 21) jz .not_xen ; No CPUID xor ebx,ebx xor ecx,ecx xor edx,edx mov eax,0x40000000 cpuid cmp ebx,"XenV" jne .not_xen cmp ecx,"MMXe" jne .not_xen cmp edx,"nVMM" jne .not_xen ; We're on Xen... mov eax,0x40000001 cpuid cmp eax,0x00030003 jae .not_xen ; Xen >= 3.3, not affected ; We may be using vmxassist, so disable HLT mov byte [ForceNoHalt],1 .not_xen: section .data err_noram db 'It appears your computer has less than ' asciidec dosram_k db 'K of low ("DOS")' db CR, LF db 'RAM. Linux needs at least this amount to boot. If you get' db CR, LF db 'this message in error, hold down the Ctrl key while' db CR, LF db 'booting, and I will take your word for it.', CR, LF, 0 section .text