Commit 83d26d11 authored by Ian Campbell's avatar Ian Campbell Committed by Russell King

ARM: 7824/1: update advice on kernel, initramfs and FDT load address.

  - Recommend that the kernel be placed under 128MiB, this is required if
    CONFIG_AUTO_ZRELADDR=y and good (or at least not bad) advice even if
    CONFIG_AUTO_ZRELADDR=n.
  - Recommend that a zImage kernel be placed above 32MiB, this avoids the need
    to relocate prior to decompression, which can speed up boot.
  - Add basic info on the requirements when loading a raw (non-zImage) kernel
    which are stricter than the zImage requirements.
  - Recommend that the DTB be placed after the 128MiB boundary, avoiding any
    potential conflict with the kernel decompressor, and within the lowmem
    region.  In practice it could follow the kernel loaded after 32MiB,
    assuming the kernel decompesses to less than 32MiB, but the 128MiB
    recommendation is simple and unambiguous.
  - Add similar recommendation regarding initramfs.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent 09096f6a
......@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ following:
2. Initialise one serial port.
3. Detect the machine type.
4. Setup the kernel tagged list.
5. Call the kernel image.
5. Load initramfs.
6. Call the kernel image.
1. Setup and initialise RAM
......@@ -120,12 +121,27 @@ tagged list.
The boot loader must pass at a minimum the size and location of the
system memory, and the root filesystem location. The dtb must be
placed in a region of memory where the kernel decompressor will not
overwrite it. The recommended placement is in the first 16KiB of RAM
with the caveat that it may not be located at physical address 0 since
the kernel interprets a value of 0 in r2 to mean neither a tagged list
nor a dtb were passed.
overwrite it, whilst remaining within the region which will be covered
by the kernel's low-memory mapping.
5. Calling the kernel image
A safe location is just above the 128MiB boundary from start of RAM.
5. Load initramfs.
------------------
Existing boot loaders: OPTIONAL
New boot loaders: OPTIONAL
If an initramfs is in use then, as with the dtb, it must be placed in
a region of memory where the kernel decompressor will not overwrite it
while also with the region which will be covered by the kernel's
low-memory mapping.
A safe location is just above the device tree blob which itself will
be loaded just above the 128MiB boundary from the start of RAM as
recommended above.
6. Calling the kernel image
---------------------------
Existing boot loaders: MANDATORY
......@@ -136,11 +152,17 @@ is stored in flash, and is linked correctly to be run from flash,
then it is legal for the boot loader to call the zImage in flash
directly.
The zImage may also be placed in system RAM (at any location) and
called there. Note that the kernel uses 16K of RAM below the image
to store page tables. The recommended placement is 32KiB into RAM.
The zImage may also be placed in system RAM and called there. The
kernel should be placed in the first 128MiB of RAM. It is recommended
that it is loaded above 32MiB in order to avoid the need to relocate
prior to decompression, which will make the boot process slightly
faster.
When booting a raw (non-zImage) kernel the constraints are tighter.
In this case the kernel must be loaded at an offset into system equal
to TEXT_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET.
In either case, the following conditions must be met:
In any case, the following conditions must be met:
- Quiesce all DMA capable devices so that memory does not get
corrupted by bogus network packets or disk data. This will save
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