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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2015-04-20 01:32:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2015-04-20 03:05:20 (GMT) |
| commit | 2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e (patch) | |
| tree | 6186a6458c3c160385d794a23eaf07c786a9e61b /Documentation/arm/Booting | |
| parent | cec32a47010647e8b0603726ebb75b990a4057a4 (diff) | |
| parent | 09d51602cf84a1264946711dd4ea0dddbac599a1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e.tar.xz | |
Merge Linus master into drm-next
The merge is clean, but the arm build fails afterwards,
due to API changes in the regulator tree.
I've included the patch into the merge to fix the build.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm/Booting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/Booting | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Booting b/Documentation/arm/Booting index 371814a..83c1df2 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Booting +++ b/Documentation/arm/Booting @@ -58,13 +58,18 @@ serial format options as described in -------------------------- Existing boot loaders: OPTIONAL -New boot loaders: MANDATORY +New boot loaders: MANDATORY except for DT-only platforms The boot loader should detect the machine type its running on by some method. Whether this is a hard coded value or some algorithm that looks at the connected hardware is beyond the scope of this document. The boot loader must ultimately be able to provide a MACH_TYPE_xxx -value to the kernel. (see linux/arch/arm/tools/mach-types). +value to the kernel. (see linux/arch/arm/tools/mach-types). This +should be passed to the kernel in register r1. + +For DT-only platforms, the machine type will be determined by device +tree. set the machine type to all ones (~0). This is not strictly +necessary, but assures that it will not match any existing types. 4. Setup boot data ------------------ |