The boot loader must ultimately be able to provide a MACH_TYPE_xxx
value to the kernel. (see linux/arch/arm/tools/mach-types).
-4. Setup boot data
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+
+4. Setup the kernel tagged list
+-------------------------------
Existing boot loaders: OPTIONAL, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
New boot loaders: MANDATORY
-The boot loader must provide either a tagged list or a dtb image for
-passing configuration data to the kernel. The physical address of the
-boot data is passed to the kernel in register r2.
-
-4a. Setup the kernel tagged list
---------------------------------
-
The boot loader must create and initialise the kernel tagged list.
A valid tagged list starts with ATAG_CORE and ends with ATAG_NONE.
The ATAG_CORE tag may or may not be empty. An empty ATAG_CORE tag
the kernel decompressor nor initrd 'bootp' program will overwrite
it. The recommended placement is in the first 16KiB of RAM.
-4b. Setup the device tree
--------------------------
-
-The boot loader must load a device tree image (dtb) into system ram
-at a 64bit aligned address and initialize it with the boot data. The
-dtb format is documented in Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt.
-The kernel will look for the dtb magic value of 0xd00dfeed at the dtb
-physical address to determine if a dtb has been passed instead of a
-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.
-
5. Calling the kernel image
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- CPU register settings
r0 = 0,
r1 = machine type number discovered in (3) above.
- r2 = physical address of tagged list in system RAM, or
- physical address of device tree block (dtb) in system RAM
+ r2 = physical address of tagged list in system RAM.
- CPU mode
All forms of interrupts must be disabled (IRQs and FIQs)