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authorBill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>2007-05-31 22:02:22 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2007-07-12 11:13:33 +0100
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[ARM] 4423/1: add ATAGS support
Examines the ATAGS pointer (r2) at boot, and interprets a nonzero value as a reference to an ATAGS structure. A suitable ATAGS structure replaces the kernel's command line. Signed-off-by: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/head.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/head.S7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
index 41f98b4ba2ee..7898cbc9861a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
#define KERNEL_RAM_VADDR (PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET)
#define KERNEL_RAM_PADDR (PHYS_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET)
+#define ATAG_CORE 0x54410001
+#define ATAG_CORE_SIZE ((2*4 + 3*4) >> 2)
+
+
/*
* swapper_pg_dir is the virtual address of the initial page table.
* We place the page tables 16K below KERNEL_RAM_VADDR. Therefore, we must
@@ -61,7 +65,7 @@
*
* This is normally called from the decompressor code. The requirements
* are: MMU = off, D-cache = off, I-cache = dont care, r0 = 0,
- * r1 = machine nr.
+ * r1 = machine nr, r2 = atags pointer.
*
* This code is mostly position independent, so if you link the kernel at
* 0xc0008000, you call this at __pa(0xc0008000).
@@ -85,6 +89,7 @@ ENTRY(stext)
bl __lookup_machine_type @ r5=machinfo
movs r8, r5 @ invalid machine (r5=0)?
beq __error_a @ yes, error 'a'
+ bl __vet_atags
bl __create_page_tables
/*