Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> writes:

> This document describes the constraints and requirements of the early
> boot process in a RISC-V kernel.

Some quick comments...

> +The RISC-V kernel expects:
> +
> +  * `$a0` to contain the hartid of the current core.
> +  * `$a1` to contain the address of the devicetree in memory.

Single `backtick` quotes are probably not doing what you want.  If
you're looking for it to render in a monospace font, use ``double``
quotes instead.  But I'd also encourage you to keep that to a minimum to
avoid overly cluttering the plain-text document.

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> +Virtual mapping installation
> +----------------------------
> +
> +The installation of the virtual mapping is done in 2 steps in the RISC-V kernel:
> +
> +1. :c:func:`setup_vm` installs a temporary kernel mapping in

Please don't use :c:func:.  If you just write setup_vm(), all the right
magic will happen.

> +   :c:var:`early_pg_dir` which allows discovery of the system memory. Only the

We also really just don't use :c:var: at all.  Kerneldoc doesn't
currently know about global variables...perhaps it should but that's not
the way of things now.

Thanks,

jon