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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt index 7d9d3c2286b2..701d39d3171a 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt @@ -104,7 +104,12 @@ Header notes: - The flags field (introduced in v3.17) is a little-endian 64-bit field composed as follows: Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE. - Bits 1-63: Reserved. + Bit 1-2: Kernel Page size. + 0 - Unspecified. + 1 - 4K + 2 - 16K + 3 - 64K + Bits 3-63: Reserved. - When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much memory as possible free for use by the kernel immediately after the @@ -173,13 +178,22 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: the kernel image will be entered must be initialised by software at a higher exception level to prevent execution in an UNKNOWN state. - For systems with a GICv3 interrupt controller: + For systems with a GICv3 interrupt controller to be used in v3 mode: - If EL3 is present: ICC_SRE_EL3.Enable (bit 3) must be initialiased to 0b1. ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. - If the kernel is entered at EL1: ICC.SRE_EL2.Enable (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1 ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. + - The DT or ACPI tables must describe a GICv3 interrupt controller. + + For systems with a GICv3 interrupt controller to be used in + compatibility (v2) mode: + - If EL3 is present: + ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b0. + - If the kernel is entered at EL1: + ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b0. + - The DT or ACPI tables must describe a GICv2 interrupt controller. The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs. All CPUs must |