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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-10-20 03:11:24 (GMT)
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-10-22 15:03:06 (GMT)
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parent381197788dbf8bb94f96ec9e03b6b81618187260 (diff)
downloadu-boot-fsl-qoriq-90268b878bd830f2fc9b1e225d96009efe331cd1.tar.xz
x86: Support loading kernel setup from a FIT
Add a new setup@ section to the FIT which can be used to provide a setup binary for booting Linux on x86. This makes it possible to boot x86 from a FIT. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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@@ -247,6 +247,8 @@ o config@1
node of a "ramdisk" type).
- fdt : Unit name of the corresponding fdt blob (component image node of a
"fdt type").
+ - setup : Unit name of the corresponding setup binary (used for booting
+ an x86 kernel). This contains the setup.bin file built by the kernel.
The FDT blob is required to properly boot FDT based kernel, so the minimal
configuration for 2.6 FDT kernel is (kernel, fdt) pair.