From: Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: nicolas.pitre@canonical.com,
Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>,
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: Boot interface for device trees on ARM
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 21:25:38 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF39272.7070909@firmworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005180802010.12758@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> ...
> Exact. For example, on ARM the machine ID is also used to figure out
> the MMU mapping needed to be able to simply be able to debug the very
> early assembly boot stage when there isn't even a stack available. While
> this info is stored in the machine record, it is actually
> subarchitecture specific and already half-digested for easy usage by
> that initial MMU setup. I just don't want to imagine what the
> equivalent functionality with DT would look like.
>
>
>
Under what circumstances would the Linux startup code not have a stack -
or not be able to set up one easily?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-19 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-18 2:54 Boot interface for device trees on ARM Jeremy Kerr
2010-05-18 4:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005172341200.12758-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-18 5:24 ` Jeremy Kerr
[not found] ` <201005181324.45701.jeremy.kerr-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-18 8:49 ` David Gibson
2010-05-18 12:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-05-18 14:06 ` Jason McMullan
[not found] ` <AANLkTikg4rQdnbFxBOUkGc_0DrKqRkp9raZ8Ck5xkLG4-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 0:21 ` David Gibson
2010-05-19 7:25 ` Mitch Bradley [this message]
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005180802010.12758-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 0:28 ` David Gibson
2010-05-19 1:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005182109180.12758-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 6:50 ` David Gibson
2010-05-19 14:45 ` Grant Likely
2010-05-19 1:41 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20100519014118.GD2318-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 7:12 ` David Gibson
2010-05-19 14:21 ` Grant Likely
2010-05-19 8:50 ` Jeremy Kerr
2010-05-18 11:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005180742500.12758-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 12:13 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <AANLkTinsOSI_TIc7Jyy4QFuFaS2d-fi0y3LMuITLyG3N-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 16:45 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20100519164534.GE1693-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 17:10 ` Grant Likely
2010-05-19 17:32 ` M. Warner Losh
2010-05-19 11:57 ` Grant Likely
2010-05-19 12:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
[not found] ` <AANLkTilJl9_NHiT1LITG7UbA9S7OYsnGMcDAsFEEx5Ob-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 17:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005191055180.12758-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 20:08 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20100519200819.GF1693-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 20:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005191614580.12758-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-21 16:24 ` John Rigby
2010-05-21 16:27 ` Jamie Bennett
[not found] ` <AANLkTil3vDAN4QIJJImk8MnQklisqFJq_RBc7c9VEZxl-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-21 19:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-06-03 21:12 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-04 20:01 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <AANLkTilhqg270l-_m9raalqAPPRhvLJD9omHe8ysgLjg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-04 20:33 ` John Rigby
2010-06-04 20:37 ` Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <E1OKdeH-00053a-U2-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-04 21:07 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-05 1:33 ` Jeremy Kerr
[not found] ` <201006050933.06714.jeremy.kerr-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-05 2:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006042212400.30664-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-05 5:59 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-09 4:26 ` Jeremy Kerr
[not found] ` <201006091226.15438.jeremy.kerr-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-09 13:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <201005181054.32325.jeremy.kerr-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
2010-05-19 11:45 ` Grant Likely
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