Thread (170 messages) 170 messages, 19 authors, 2012-09-16

Re: [PATCH v2 02/31] arm64: Kernel booting and initialisation

From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Date: 2012-08-17 08:56:48
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, lkml

* Catalin Marinas [off-list ref] [120814 11:00]:
+3. Decompress the kernel image
+------------------------------
+
+Requirement: OPTIONAL
+
+The AArch64 kernel does not provide a decompressor and therefore
+requires gzip decompression to be performed by the boot loader if the
+default Image.gz target is used.  For bootloaders that do not implement
+this requirement, the larger Image target is available instead.
Maybe add something here about why AArch64 does not provide a
decompressor? That's something everybody will wonder while reading
this part.
+- Caches, MMUs
+  The MMU must be off.
+  Instruction cache may be on or off.
+  Data cache must be off and invalidated.
External caches must be configured by bootloader but set to disabled
state?

Other than that:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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