Hello, 2008/9/25 Andrew Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Many (most?) ARM kernel ports use a format called ATAGS to pass > information to the linux kernel at startup.CONFIG_CMDLINE_TAG tells > u-boot to include ATAGS support, there are a variety of tags that can
Oh, I see now. The TAG structures are defined in $(u-boot)/include/asm-arm/setup.h --- great deal of various tags (video, memory, initrd and so on). > be included with different CONFIG options. Have a look at > lib_arm/bootm.c - where the kernel actually gets called is in line > 125, like so: > theKernel(0, machid, bd->bi_boot_params) > > where the arguments get put into registers r0, r1, r2 and are 0, the > machine ID, and a pointer to the ATAGS structure respectively. Thanks a lot for such a useful and clear explanation. -- Roman Mashak _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
