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- Booting ARM Linux
- =================
- Author: Russell King
- Date : 18 May 2002
- The following documentation is relevant to 2.4.18-rmk6 and beyond.
- In order to boot ARM Linux, you require a boot loader, which is a small
- program that runs before the main kernel. The boot loader is expected
- to initialise various devices, and eventually call the Linux kernel,
- passing information to the kernel.
- Essentially, the boot loader should provide (as a minimum) the
- following:
- 1. Setup and initialise the RAM.
- 2. Initialise one serial port.
- 3. Detect the machine type.
- 4. Setup the kernel tagged list.
- 5. Call the kernel image.
- 1. Setup and initialise RAM
- ---------------------------
- Existing boot loaders: MANDATORY
- New boot loaders: MANDATORY
- The boot loader is expected to find and initialise all RAM that the
- kernel will use for volatile data storage in the system. It performs
- this in a machine dependent manner. (It may use internal algorithms
- to automatically locate and size all RAM, or it may use knowledge of
- the RAM in the machine, or any other method the boot loader designer
- sees fit.)
- 2. Initialise one serial port
- -----------------------------
- Existing boot loaders: OPTIONAL, RECOMMENDED
- New boot loaders: OPTIONAL, RECOMMENDED
- The boot loader should initialise and enable one serial port on the
- target. This allows the kernel serial driver to automatically detect
- which serial port it should use for the kernel console (generally
- used for debugging purposes, or communication with the target.)
- As an alternative, the boot loader can pass the relevant 'console='
- option to the kernel via the tagged lists specifing the port, and
- serial format options as described in
- linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
- 3. Detect the machine type
- --------------------------
- Existing boot loaders: OPTIONAL
- New boot loaders: MANDATORY
- 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).
- 4. Setup the kernel tagged list
- -------------------------------
- Existing boot loaders: OPTIONAL, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
- New boot loaders: MANDATORY
- 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
- has the size field set to '2' (0x00000002). The ATAG_NONE must set
- the size field to zero.
- Any number of tags can be placed in the list. It is undefined
- whether a repeated tag appends to the information carried by the
- previous tag, or whether it replaces the information in its
- entirety; some tags behave as the former, others the latter.
- The boot loader must pass at a minimum the size and location of
- the system memory, and root filesystem location. Therefore, the
- minimum tagged list should look:
- +-----------+
- base -> | ATAG_CORE | |
- +-----------+ |
- | ATAG_MEM | | increasing address
- +-----------+ |
- | ATAG_NONE | |
- +-----------+ v
- The tagged list should be stored in system RAM.
- The tagged list must be placed in a region of memory where neither
- the kernel decompressor nor initrd 'bootp' program will overwrite
- it. The recommended placement is in the first 16KiB of RAM.
- 5. Calling the kernel image
- ---------------------------
- Existing boot loaders: MANDATORY
- New boot loaders: MANDATORY
- There are two options for calling the kernel zImage. If the zImage
- 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.
- In either case, the following conditions must be met:
- - CPU register settings
- r0 = 0,
- r1 = machine type number discovered in (3) above.
- r2 = physical address of tagged list in system RAM.
- - CPU mode
- All forms of interrupts must be disabled (IRQs and FIQs)
- The CPU must be in SVC mode. (A special exception exists for Angel)
- - Caches, MMUs
- The MMU must be off.
- Instruction cache may be on or off.
- Data cache must be off.
- - The boot loader is expected to call the kernel image by jumping
- directly to the first instruction of the kernel image.