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| author | David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> | 2007-03-05 04:24:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-03-13 03:35:03 +0100 |
| commit | cd197ffcf10bcc1a260efe5c09a3188fd9228c83 (patch) | |
| tree | 280d1c3026b263fbdb95961ae77efb79739e8daf /arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S | |
| parent | [POWERPC] zImage: Cleanup and improve prep_kernel() (diff) | |
| download | linux-cd197ffcf10bcc1a260efe5c09a3188fd9228c83.tar.xz linux-cd197ffcf10bcc1a260efe5c09a3188fd9228c83.zip | |
[POWERPC] zImage: Cleanup and improve zImage entry point
This patch re-organises the way the zImage wrapper code is entered, to
allow more flexibility on platforms with unusual entry conditions.
After this patch, a platform .o file has two options:
1) It can define a _zimage_start, in which case the platform code gets
control from the very beginning of execution. In this case the
platform code is responsible for relocating the zImage if necessary,
clearing the BSS, performing any platform specific initialization, and
finally calling start() to load and enter the kernel.
2) It can define platform_init(). In this case the generic crt0.S
handles initial entry, and calls platform_init() before calling
start(). The signature of platform_init() is changed, however, to
take up to 5 parameters (in r3..r7) as they come from the platform's
initial loader, instead of a fixed set of parameters based on OF's
usage.
When using the generic crt0.S, the platform .o can optionally
supply a custom stack to use, using the BSS_STACK() macro. If this
is not supplied, the crt0.S will assume that the loader has
supplied a usable stack.
In either case, the platform code communicates information to the
generic code (specifically, a PROM pointer for OF systems, and/or an
initrd image address supplied by the bootloader) via a global
structure "loader_info".
In addition the wrapper script is rearranged to ensure that the
platform .o is always linked first. This means that platforms where
the zImage entry point is at a fixed address or offset, rather than
being encoded in the binary header can be supported using option (1).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S | 32 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S b/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S index 70e65b13e033..3dc8d8f78499 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ _zimage_start_opd: .long _zimage_start, 0, 0, 0 + .weak _zimage_start .globl _zimage_start _zimage_start: /* Work out the offset between the address we were linked at @@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ _zimage_start: addi r9,r9,4 bdnz 2b - /* Do a cache flush for our text, in case OF didn't */ + /* Do a cache flush for our text, in case the loader didn't */ 3: lis r9,_start@ha addi r9,r9,_start@l add r9,r0,r9 @@ -59,6 +60,31 @@ _zimage_start: sync isync - mr r6,r1 - b start + /* Clear the BSS */ + lis r9,__bss_start@ha + addi r9,r9,__bss_start@l + lis r8,_end@ha + addi r8,r8,_end@l + li r0,0 +5: stw r0,0(r9) + addi r9,r9,4 + cmplw cr0,r9,r8 + blt 5b + /* Possibly set up a custom stack */ +.weak _platform_stack_top + lis r8,_platform_stack_top@ha + addi r8,r8,_platform_stack_top@l + cmpwi r8,0 + beq 6f + lwz r1,0(r8) + li r0,0 + stwu r0,-16(r1) /* establish a stack frame */ +6: + + /* Call platform_init() */ + bl platform_init + + /* Call start */ + mr r3,r1 + b start |