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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2011-02-22 15:07:37 -0500
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2011-02-23 16:27:52 -0500
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tree5ae44f22f3be802f2a9d3c09fd068f394efbd0a6 /Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt
parentf1c2b357148ec27fcc6ce0992211209a0ea20d8f (diff)
x86: Add device tree support
This patch adds minimal support for device tree on x86. The device tree blob is passed to the kernel via setup_data which requires at least boot protocol 2.09. Memory size, restricted memory regions, boot arguments are gathered the traditional way so things like cmd_line are just here to let the code compile. The current plan is use the device tree as an extension and to gather information which can not be enumerated and would have to be hardcoded otherwise. This includes things like - which devices are on this I2C/SPI bus? - how are the interrupts wired to IO APIC? - where could my hpet be? Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: sodaville@linutronix.de Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org LKML-Reference: <1298405266-1624-3-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Table of Contents
13 13
14 I - Introduction 14 I - Introduction
15 1) Entry point for arch/powerpc 15 1) Entry point for arch/powerpc
16 2) Entry point for arch/x86
16 17
17 II - The DT block format 18 II - The DT block format
18 1) Header 19 1) Header
@@ -225,6 +226,25 @@ it with special cases.
225 cannot support both configurations with Book E and configurations 226 cannot support both configurations with Book E and configurations
226 with classic Powerpc architectures. 227 with classic Powerpc architectures.
227 228
2292) Entry point for arch/x86
230-------------------------------
231
232 There is one single 32bit entry point to the kernel at code32_start,
233 the decompressor (the real mode entry point goes to the same 32bit
234 entry point once it switched into protected mode). That entry point
235 supports one calling convention which is documented in
236 Documentation/x86/boot.txt
237 The physical pointer to the device-tree block (defined in chapter II)
238 is passed via setup_data which requires at least boot protocol 2.09.
239 The type filed is defined as
240
241 #define SETUP_DTB 2
242
243 This device-tree is used as an extension to the "boot page". As such it
244 does not parse / consider data which is already covered by the boot
245 page. This includes memory size, reserved ranges, command line arguments
246 or initrd address. It simply holds information which can not be retrieved
247 otherwise like interrupt routing or a list of devices behind an I2C bus.
228 248
229II - The DT block format 249II - The DT block format
230======================== 250========================