[patch 3/3] mmc, ARM: Add zboot from MMC support for SuperH Mobile ARM

Simon Horman simon at horms.net
Sun Dec 5 19:44:52 EST 2010


On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:12:46AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> This allows a ROM-able zImage to be written to MMC and
> for SuperH Mobile ARM to boot directly from the MMCIF
> hardware block.
> 
> This is achieved by the MaskROM loading the first portion
> of the image into MERAM and then jumping to it. This portion
> contains loader code which copies the entire image to SDRAM
> and jumps to it. From there the zImage boot code proceeds
> as normal, uncompressing the image into its final location
> and then jumping to it.
> 
> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> 
> --- 
> 
> This patch depends on "ARM: 6514/1: mach-shmobile: Add zboot support for
> SuperH Mobile ARM" which has been merged into the devel branch
> of Russell King's linux-2.6-arm tree.

This patch also depends on the previous two patches in this series.




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