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@@ -111,8 +111,14 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
111- Caches, MMUs 111- Caches, MMUs
112 The MMU must be off. 112 The MMU must be off.
113 Instruction cache may be on or off. 113 Instruction cache may be on or off.
114 Data cache must be off and invalidated. 114 The address range corresponding to the loaded kernel image must be
115 External caches (if present) must be configured and disabled. 115 cleaned to the PoC. In the presence of a system cache or other
116 coherent masters with caches enabled, this will typically require
117 cache maintenance by VA rather than set/way operations.
118 System caches which respect the architected cache maintenance by VA
119 operations must be configured and may be enabled.
120 System caches which do not respect architected cache maintenance by VA
121 operations (not recommended) must be configured and disabled.
116 122
117- Architected timers 123- Architected timers
118 CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency and CNTVOFF must 124 CNTFRQ must be programmed with the timer frequency and CNTVOFF must