linux/Documentation/x86/booting-dt.rst
Rob Herring 441848282c dt: Remove booting-without-of.rst
booting-without-of.rst is an ancient document that first outlined
Flattened DeviceTree on PowerPC initially. The DT world has evolved a
lot in the 15 years since and booting-without-of.rst is pretty stale.
The name of the document itself is confusing if you don't understand the
evolution from real 'OpenFirmware'. Most of what booting-without-of.rst
contains is now in the DT specification (which evolved out of the
ePAPR). The few things that weren't documented in the DT specification
are now.

All that remains is the boot entry details, so let's move these to arch
specific documents. The exception is arm which already has the same
details documented.

Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2020-10-13 13:33:16 -05:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
DeviceTree Booting
------------------
There is one single 32bit entry point to the kernel at code32_start,
the decompressor (the real mode entry point goes to the same 32bit
entry point once it switched into protected mode). That entry point
supports one calling convention which is documented in
Documentation/x86/boot.rst
The physical pointer to the device-tree block is passed via setup_data
which requires at least boot protocol 2.09.
The type filed is defined as
#define SETUP_DTB 2
This device-tree is used as an extension to the "boot page". As such it
does not parse / consider data which is already covered by the boot
page. This includes memory size, reserved ranges, command line arguments
or initrd address. It simply holds information which can not be retrieved
otherwise like interrupt routing or a list of devices behind an I2C bus.