It's not a requirement.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 5:19 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Ni, Ray <ray...@intel.com>
> Cc: Justen, Jordan L <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek 
> <ler...@redhat.com>; Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kin...@intel.com>; 
> Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com>; Dong,
> Eric <eric.d...@intel.com>; Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com>; Wang, Jian 
> J <jian.j.w...@intel.com>; Wu, Hao A
> <hao.a...@intel.com>; Bi, Dandan <dandan...@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 33/43] MdeModulePkg: Reserve a 16-bit 
> protected mode code segment descriptor
> 
> On 12/12/19 12:57 AM, Ni, Ray via Groups.Io wrote:
> > Is the 16bit code segment descriptor needed in early DXE before CpuDxe (DXE 
> > MP)?
> 
> I don't believe it is. I did this to keep all of the CS descriptors
> consistent since the ones here seemed to line up with the ones in
> UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe/CpuGdt.c.  I can remove this change if that isn't
> a requirement.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:07 AM
> >> To: devel@edk2.groups.io
> >> Cc: Justen, Jordan L <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek 
> >> <ler...@redhat.com>; Ard Biesheuvel
> >> <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>; Kinney, Michael D 
> >> <michael.d.kin...@intel.com>; Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com>;
> Dong,
> >> Eric <eric.d...@intel.com>; Ni, Ray <ray...@intel.com>; Brijesh Singh 
> >> <brijesh.si...@amd.com>; Wang, Jian J
> >> <jian.j.w...@intel.com>; Wu, Hao A <hao.a...@intel.com>; Bi, Dandan 
> >> <dandan...@intel.com>
> >> Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 33/43] MdeModulePkg: Reserve a 16-bit protected 
> >> mode code segment descriptor
> >>
> >> BZ:
> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.tianocore.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D21
> 98&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cthomas.lendacky%40amd.com%7C8ec88e8912cd4b99eb0f08d77ed09b2c%7C3dd8961fe4884e60
> 8e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637117306738013792&amp;sdata=PwSQc53mtPMUTALaRhQrcQzGI3ooPUMhcktYLi1ezfk
> %3D&amp;reserved=0
> >>
> >> SEV-ES guest AP boot support needs to transition from 64-bit long mode
> >> into 16-bit real mode. This will require a 16-bit code segment descriptor.
> >> Reserve one of the spare segment descriptors (0x28) for this purpose.
> >>
> >> Cc: Jian J Wang <jian.j.w...@intel.com>
> >> Cc: Hao A Wu <hao.a...@intel.com>
> >> Cc: Dandan Bi <dandan...@intel.com>
> >> Cc: Liming Gao <liming....@intel.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
> >> ---
> >>  MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/Ia32/DxeLoadFunc.c | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/Ia32/DxeLoadFunc.c
> b/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/Ia32/DxeLoadFunc.c
> >> index 284b34818ca7..c9cf2e36214f 100644
> >> --- a/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/Ia32/DxeLoadFunc.c
> >> +++ b/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/Ia32/DxeLoadFunc.c
> >> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GLOBAL_REMOVE_IF_UNREFERENCED IA32_GDT gGdtEntries[] = {
> >>  /* 0x10 */  {{0xffff, 0,  0,  0xf,  1,  0,  1,  0xf,  0,  0, 1,  1,  0}}, 
> >> //linear code segment descriptor
> >>  /* 0x18 */  {{0xffff, 0,  0,  0x3,  1,  0,  1,  0xf,  0,  0, 1,  1,  0}}, 
> >> //system data segment descriptor
> >>  /* 0x20 */  {{0xffff, 0,  0,  0xa,  1,  0,  1,  0xf,  0,  0, 1,  1,  0}}, 
> >> //system code segment descriptor
> >> -/* 0x28 */  {{0,      0,  0,  0,    0,  0,  0,  0,    0,  0, 0,  0,  0}}, 
> >> //spare segment descriptor
> >> +/* 0x28 */  {{0xffff, 0,  0,  0xa,  1,  0,  1,  0xf,  0,  0, 0,  1,  0}}, 
> >> //system code16 segment descriptor
> >>  /* 0x30 */  {{0xffff, 0,  0,  0x2,  1,  0,  1,  0xf,  0,  0, 1,  1,  0}}, 
> >> //system data segment descriptor
> >>  /* 0x38 */  {{0xffff, 0,  0,  0xa,  1,  0,  1,  0xf,  0,  1, 0,  1,  0}}, 
> >> //system code segment descriptor
> >>  /* 0x40 */  {{0,      0,  0,  0,    0,  0,  0,  0,    0,  0, 0,  0,  0}}, 
> >> //spare segment descriptor
> >> --
> >> 2.17.1
> >
> >
> > 
> >

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