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| author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2015-06-19 17:07:07 +0300 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2015-06-19 17:07:07 +0300 |
| commit | c0b59fafe31bf91f589736be304d739b13952fdd (patch) | |
| tree | 0088a41c6b68132739294643be06734e3af67677 /Documentation/arm/Booting | |
| parent | 28bceeaaf81140d69647acd0eb7dc9312f27844a (diff) | |
| parent | bfa1ce5f38938cc9e6c7f2d1011f88eba2b9e2b2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c0b59fafe31bf91f589736be304d739b13952fdd.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'mvebu/drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Merge the mvebu/drivers branch of the arm-soc tree which contains
just a single patch bfa1ce5f38938cc9e6c7f2d1011f88eba2b9e2b2 ("bus:
mvebu-mbus: add mv_mbus_dram_info_nooverlap()") that happens to be
a prerequisite of the new marvell/cesa crypto driver.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm/Booting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/Booting | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Booting b/Documentation/arm/Booting index 371814a36719..83c1df2fc758 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Booting +++ b/Documentation/arm/Booting @@ -58,13 +58,18 @@ serial format options as described in -------------------------- Existing boot loaders: OPTIONAL -New boot loaders: MANDATORY +New boot loaders: MANDATORY except for DT-only platforms The boot loader should detect the machine type its running on by some method. Whether this is a hard coded value or some algorithm that looks at the connected hardware is beyond the scope of this document. The boot loader must ultimately be able to provide a MACH_TYPE_xxx -value to the kernel. (see linux/arch/arm/tools/mach-types). +value to the kernel. (see linux/arch/arm/tools/mach-types). This +should be passed to the kernel in register r1. + +For DT-only platforms, the machine type will be determined by device +tree. set the machine type to all ones (~0). This is not strictly +necessary, but assures that it will not match any existing types. 4. Setup boot data ------------------ |