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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-02-14 16:13:20 +0100
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-02-14 16:13:20 +0100
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Revert "dt: add documentation of ARM dt boot interface"
This reverts commit 9830fcd6f6a4781d8b46d2b35c13b39f30915c63. The ARM dt support has not been merged yet; this documentation update was premature. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Table of Contents
I - Introduction
1) Entry point for arch/powerpc
- 2) Entry point for arch/arm
II - The DT block format
1) Header
@@ -226,45 +225,6 @@ 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
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