From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:56:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v2 02/31] arm64: Kernel booting and initialisation In-Reply-To: <1344966752-16102-3-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> References: <1344966752-16102-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <1344966752-16102-3-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> Message-ID: <20120817085615.GO11011@atomide.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Catalin Marinas [120814 11:00]: > +3. Decompress the kernel image > +------------------------------ > + > +Requirement: OPTIONAL > + > +The AArch64 kernel does not provide a decompressor and therefore > +requires gzip decompression to be performed by the boot loader if the > +default Image.gz target is used. For bootloaders that do not implement > +this requirement, the larger Image target is available instead. Maybe add something here about why AArch64 does not provide a decompressor? That's something everybody will wonder while reading this part. > +- Caches, MMUs > + The MMU must be off. > + Instruction cache may be on or off. > + Data cache must be off and invalidated. External caches must be configured by bootloader but set to disabled state? Other than that: Acked-by: Tony Lindgren