x86: Emit post codes in startup code for Chromebooks

On x86 it is common to use 'post codes' which are 8-bit hex values emitted
from the code and visible to the user. Traditionally two 7-segment displays
were made available on the motherboard to show the last post code that was
emitted. This allows diagnosis of a boot problem since it is possible to
see where the code got to before it died.

On modern hardware these codes are not normally visible. On Chromebooks
they are displayed by the Embedded Controller (EC), so it is useful to emit
them. We must enable this feature for the EC to see the codes, so add an
option for this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>

3 files changed, 38 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c b/arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c
index 85017165c0..0760a61d84 100644
--- a/arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/cpu/coreboot/coreboot.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <asm/cache.h>
 #include <asm/cpu.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/post.h>
 #include <asm/arch-coreboot/tables.h>
 #include <asm/arch-coreboot/sysinfo.h>
 #include <asm/arch/timestamp.h>
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ void show_boot_progress(int val)
 		gd->arch.tsc_prev = now;
 	}
 #endif
-	outb(val, 0x80);
+	outb(val, POST_PORT);
 }
 
 int print_cpuinfo(void)
diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/start.S b/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
index b18f3201bc..1b738f9916 100644
--- a/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
+++ b/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <config.h>
 #include <version.h>
 #include <asm/global_data.h>
+#include <asm/post.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/processor-flags.h>
 #include <generated/generic-asm-offsets.h>
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ _start:
 	jmp	early_board_init
 .globl early_board_init_ret
 early_board_init_ret:
+	post_code(POST_START)
 
 	/* Initialise Cache-As-RAM */
 	jmp	car_init
@@ -96,6 +98,7 @@ car_init_ret:
 
 	/* Align global data to 16-byte boundary */
 	andl	$0xfffffff0, %esp
+	post_code(POST_START_STACK)
 
 	/* Zero the global data since it won't happen later */
 	xorl	%eax, %eax
@@ -131,6 +134,7 @@ car_init_ret:
 	call	setup_gdt
 
 	/* Set parameter to board_init_f() to boot flags */
+	post_code(POST_START_DONE)
 	xorl	%eax, %eax
 
 	/* Enter, U-boot! */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/post.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/post.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..33711854af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/post.h
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Google, Inc
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+ */
+
+#ifndef _post_h
+#define _post_h
+
+/* port to use for post codes */
+#define POST_PORT		0x80
+
+/* post codes which represent various stages of init */
+#define POST_START		0x1e
+#define POST_CAR_START		0x1f
+
+#define POST_START_STACK	0x29
+#define POST_START_DONE		0x2a
+
+/* Output a post code using al - value must be 0 to 0xff */
+#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
+#define post_code(value) \
+	movb	$value, %al; \
+	outb	%al, $POST_PORT
+#else
+static inline void post_code(int code)
+{
+	outb(code, POST_PORT);
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif