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author | Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> | 2019-07-18 00:34:27 -0700 |
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committer | Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> | 2019-07-24 10:09:59 -0400 |
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diff --git a/doc/README.arm64 b/doc/README.arm64 deleted file mode 100644 index b0bba0f..0000000 --- a/doc/README.arm64 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -U-Boot for arm64 - -Summary -======= -The initial arm64 U-Boot port was developed before hardware was available, -so the first supported platforms were the Foundation and Fast Model for ARMv8. -These days U-Boot runs on a variety of 64-bit capable ARM hardware, from -embedded development boards to servers. - -Notes -===== - -1. U-Boot can run at any exception level it is entered in, it is - recommened to enter it in EL3 if U-Boot takes some responsibilities of a - classical firmware (like initial hardware setup, CPU errata workarounds - or SMP bringup). U-Boot can be entered in EL2 when its main purpose is - that of a boot loader. It can drop to lower exception levels before - entering the OS. - -2. U-Boot for arm64 is compiled with AArch64-gcc. AArch64-gcc - use rela relocation format, a tool(tools/relocate-rela) by Scott Wood - is used to encode the initial addend of rela to u-boot.bin. After running, - the U-Boot will be relocated to destination again. - -3. Earlier Linux kernel versions required the FDT to be placed at a - 2 MB boundary and within the same 512 MB section as the kernel image, - resulting in fdt_high to be defined specially. - Since kernel version 4.2 Linux is more relaxed about the DT location, so it - can be placed anywhere in memory. - Please reference linux/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt for detail. - -4. Spin-table is used to wake up secondary processors. One location - (or per processor location) is defined to hold the kernel entry point - for secondary processors. It must be ensured that the location is - accessible and zero immediately after secondary processor - enter slave_cpu branch execution in start.S. The location address - is encoded in cpu node of DTS. Linux kernel store the entry point - of secondary processors to it and send event to wakeup secondary - processors. - Please reference linux/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt for detail. - -5. Generic board is supported. - -6. CONFIG_ARM64 instead of CONFIG_ARMV8 is used to distinguish aarch64 and - aarch32 specific codes. - - -Contributors -============ - Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> - Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> - York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com> - Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> - Sharma Bhupesh <bhupesh.sharma@freescale.com> - Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> - Sergey Temerkhanov <s.temerkhanov@gmail.com> |