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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> | 2015-07-29 12:30:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2015-07-29 18:32:10 +0100 |
| commit | 6c020ea8dc3a8adee81b6f141428a7a75249706e (patch) | |
| tree | be392025b6ec76a92a74415ac0238af54de4bce2 /Documentation/arm64 | |
| parent | 484c96dbb26965d712a808ab9e8b00090455bdf6 (diff) | |
arm64/Documentation: clarify wording regarding memory below the Image
Clarify that the memory below the start of the image but inside the
region covered by the linear mapping has no special significance to
the kernel, and may be used by the firmware provided that it is marked
as reserved.
Also, fix up some whitespace errors.
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt index 1690350f16e7..7d9d3c2286b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The decompressed kernel image contains a 64-byte header as follows: u64 res3 = 0; /* reserved */ u64 res4 = 0; /* reserved */ u32 magic = 0x644d5241; /* Magic number, little endian, "ARM\x64" */ - u32 res5; /* reserved (used for PE COFF offset) */ + u32 res5; /* reserved (used for PE COFF offset) */ Header notes: @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ 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. + Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE. Bits 1-63: Reserved. - When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much @@ -115,11 +115,14 @@ The Image must be placed text_offset bytes from a 2MB aligned base address near the start of usable system RAM and called there. Memory below that base address is currently unusable by Linux, and therefore it is strongly recommended that this location is the start of system RAM. +The region between the 2 MB aligned base address and the start of the +image has no special significance to the kernel, and may be used for +other purposes. At least image_size bytes from the start of the image must be free for use by the kernel. -Any memory described to the kernel (even that below the 2MB aligned base -address) which is not marked as reserved from the kernel e.g. with a +Any memory described to the kernel (even that below the start of the +image) which is not marked as reserved from the kernel (e.g., with a memreserve region in the device tree) will be considered as available to the kernel. |