Re: ARM client program boot architecture

2013-07-23 Thread Grant Likely
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote: > Is there a written spec or description of how a boot program (u-boot, UEFI, > hypervisor) boots an OS on ARM platforms? > > ePAPR-type device trees are used to describe a platform, but what > about the type of information in sections 5.

Re: ARM client program boot architecture

2013-07-23 Thread Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 19:56 +, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote: > Is there a written spec or description of how a boot program (u-boot, UEFI, > hypervisor) boots an OS on ARM platforms? There's some information in the Linux source in the file Documentation/arm/Booting. -- Tixy __

RE: ARM client program boot architecture

2013-07-23 Thread Yoder Stuart-B08248
org; > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > Subject: Re: ARM client program boot architecture > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Peter Maydell > wrote: > > On 23 July 2013 12:33, Grant Likely wrote: > >> Historically each ARM SoC did its own thing for secondary CPU startup. >

Re: ARM client program boot architecture

2013-07-23 Thread Grant Likely
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 23 July 2013 12:33, Grant Likely wrote: >> Historically each ARM SoC did its own thing for secondary CPU startup. >> New platforms are expected to use the PSCI spec (which unfortunately >> isn't an open document, but ARM partners can get

Re: ARM client program boot architecture

2013-07-23 Thread Peter Maydell
On 23 July 2013 12:33, Grant Likely wrote: > Historically each ARM SoC did its own thing for secondary CPU startup. > New platforms are expected to use the PSCI spec (which unfortunately > isn't an open document, but ARM partners can get access). > > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=

Re: ARM client program boot architecture

2013-07-23 Thread Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:16 +0100, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 19:56 +, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote: > > Is there a written spec or description of how a boot program (u-boot, UEFI, > > hypervisor) boots an OS on ARM platforms? > > There's some information in the Linux sour

ARM client program boot architecture

2013-07-22 Thread Yoder Stuart-B08248
Is there a written spec or description of how a boot program (u-boot, UEFI, hypervisor) boots an OS on ARM platforms? ePAPR-type device trees are used to describe a platform, but what about the type of information in sections 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 of the ePAPR: -initial mapped areas -state of MMU