From: zoss@devai.org (Zoltan Devai)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 15/15] ARM: uncompress: Add documentation
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:10:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319404245-12740-15-git-send-email-zoss@devai.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319404245-12740-1-git-send-email-zoss@devai.org>
Short description for mach maintainters on how to use the
ucuart driver. It is in-line in the print.c file, as they will
probably look there for any compile/link errors caused by
their decompressor UART setup.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Devai <zoss@devai.org>
---
arch/arm/boot/compressed/print.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/print.c b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/print.c
index cbb0dbf..b495c2e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/print.c
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/print.c
@@ -1,21 +1,38 @@
/*
- * misc.c
- *
- * This is a collection of several routines from gzip-1.0.3
- * adapted for Linux.
- *
- * malloc by Hannu Savolainen 1993 and Matthias Urlichs 1994
- *
- * Modified for ARM Linux by Russell King
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* Nicolas Pitre <nico@visuaide.com> 1999/04/14 :
* For this code to run directly from Flash, all constant variables must
- * be marked with 'const' and all other variables initialized at run-time
+ * be marked with 'const' and all other variables initialized at run-time
* only. This way all non constant variables will end up in the bss segment,
* which should point to addresses in RAM and cleared to 0 on start.
* This allows for a much quicker boot time.
*/
+/* UART usage before kernel start:
+ * The files in this directory allow the boot of a self-extracting kernel
+ * image. As the kernel itself is compressed, this is a separate environment
+ * and thus needs a separate UART driver to communicate with the outside.
+ * Machines have multiple ways for providing this UART driver in their
+ * uncompress.h files:
+ *
+ * a) If your UART is compatible with a standard 8250 or AMBA01X port,
+ * call one of the below ucuart_8250/amba01x setup routines from the
+ * function "static inline void arch_decomp_setup(void)", that
+ * resides in the uncompress.h file.
+ * b) If your UART is not a standard one, but still an MMIO one, that
+ * has at least a direct register for TX, use the generic ucuart_init()
+ * function.
+ * c) If your UART is too complicated for these simple routines, or you
+ * rather want to use a framebuffer, provide your own putc(), flush() and
+ * arch_decomp_setup() functions and #define ARCH_UCUART_NONGENERIC
+ * in your header file.
+ * d) You can supply the description of the UART in a device tree blob that
+ * is passed to the kernel.
+ * (Not yet: In this case, you may omit the uncompress.h file entirely)
+ */
#include <linux/compiler.h> /* for inline */
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/linkage.h>
--
1.7.4.1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-23 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-23 21:10 [RFC PATCH 01/15] ARM: uncompress.h: Remove unused arch_decomp_wdog defines Zoltan Devai
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 02/15] ARM: uncompress: Remove unused definition of ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WATCHDOG Zoltan Devai
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 03/15] ARM: uncompress.h: Introduce ARCH_HAVE_DECOMP_SETUP Zoltan Devai
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 04/15] ARM: uncompress: Only call arch_decomp_setup when needed Zoltan Devai
2011-10-24 6:55 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 05/15] ARM: uncompress.h: Remove unused arch_decomp_setup declarations Zoltan Devai
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 06/15] ARM: uncompress: Remove unused Trace functions Zoltan Devai
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 07/15] ARM: uncompress: Move decompressing related stuff to decompress.c Zoltan Devai
2011-10-24 9:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-24 9:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 08/15] ARM: uncompress: Rename misc.c to print.c Zoltan Devai
2011-10-24 6:58 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 09/15] ARM: uncompress: Introduce ucuart as low-level serial port driver Zoltan Devai
2011-10-24 9:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 10/15] ARM: uncompress.h: Convert machines to use the new ucuart driver Zoltan Devai
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 11/15] ARM: uncompress: Call arch_decomp_setup by default Zoltan Devai
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 12/15] ARM: uncompress.h: make the ucuart driver the default implementation Zoltan Devai
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 13/15] ARM: uncompress.h: Cleanup header guards and banners Zoltan Devai
2011-10-24 9:29 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-23 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 14/15] ARM: uncompress: Get decompress UART info from DT Zoltan Devai
2011-10-24 9:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-25 7:38 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-10-23 21:10 ` Zoltan Devai [this message]
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