[PATCH] ARM: Versatile Express: Add default memory layout
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Jul 22 07:19:56 EDT 2010
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 12:16 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> The kernel boot requirements document has for the last _8_ years said:
>
> 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
>
> and still u-boot gets it wrong... Now tell me why I hate boot loaders
> soo much.
Maybe it's time to ignore all boot loaders and do everything in the
kernel :)
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Catalin
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