[PATCH v2 02/31] arm64: Kernel booting and initialisation
Tony Lindgren
tony at atomide.com
Fri Aug 17 04:56:15 EDT 2012
* Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> [120814 11:00]:
> +3. Decompress the kernel image
> +------------------------------
> +
> +Requirement: OPTIONAL
> +
> +The AArch64 kernel does not provide a decompressor and therefore
> +requires gzip decompression to be performed by the boot loader if the
> +default Image.gz target is used. For bootloaders that do not implement
> +this requirement, the larger Image target is available instead.
Maybe add something here about why AArch64 does not provide a
decompressor? That's something everybody will wonder while reading
this part.
> +- Caches, MMUs
> + The MMU must be off.
> + Instruction cache may be on or off.
> + Data cache must be off and invalidated.
External caches must be configured by bootloader but set to disabled
state?
Other than that:
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
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