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| author | Grant Likely | 2011-01-31 00:09:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Grant Likely | 2011-01-31 13:18:33 -0700 |
| commit | 9830fcd6f6a4781d8b46d2b35c13b39f30915c63 (patch) | |
| tree | a27be74182dc984678bcbb1668105adaf5a6efb0 /Documentation/devicetree | |
| parent | cf4e5c6e8d2b87ae8e61168a7dc860d68c578745 (diff) | |
dt: add documentation of ARM dt boot interface
v3: added details to Documentation/arm/Booting
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt | 40 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt index 28b1c9d3d351..9381a1481027 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Table of Contents I - Introduction 1) Entry point for arch/powerpc + 2) Entry point for arch/arm II - The DT block format 1) Header @@ -225,6 +226,45 @@ it with special cases. cannot support both configurations with Book E and configurations with classic Powerpc architectures. +2) Entry point for arch/arm +--------------------------- + + There is one single entry point to the kernel, at the start + of the kernel image. That entry point supports two calling + conventions. A summary of the interface is described here. A full + description of the boot requirements is documented in + Documentation/arm/Booting + + a) ATAGS interface. Minimal information is passed from firmware + to the kernel with a tagged list of predefined parameters. + + r0 : 0 + + r1 : Machine type number + + r2 : Physical address of tagged list in system RAM + + b) Entry with a flattened device-tree block. Firmware loads the + physical address of the flattened device tree block (dtb) into r2, + r1 is not used, but it is considered good practise to use a valid + machine number as described in Documentation/arm/Booting. + + r0 : 0 + + r1 : Valid machine type number. When using a device tree, + a single machine type number will often be assigned to + represent a class or family of SoCs. + + r2 : physical pointer to the device-tree block + (defined in chapter II) in RAM. Device tree can be located + anywhere in system RAM, but it should be aligned on a 32 bit + boundary. + + The kernel will differentiate between ATAGS and device tree booting by + reading the memory pointed to by r1 and looking for either the flattened + device tree block magic value (0xd00dfeed) or the ATAG_CORE value at + offset 0x4 from r2 (0x54410001). + II - The DT block format ======================== |