On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Roy Franz <[email protected]> wrote:
> This patch adds EFI stub support for the ARM Linux kernel. The EFI stub
> operates similarly to the x86 stub: it is a shim between the EFI firmware
> and the normal zImage entry point, and sets up the environment that the
> zImage is expecting. This includes loading the initrd (optionaly) and
> device tree from the system partition based on the kernel command line.
> The stub updates the device tree as necessary, adding entries for EFI
> runtime services. The PE/COFF "MZ" header at offset 0 results in the
> first instruction being an add that corrupts r5, which is not used by
> the zImage interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
> ---
[snip]
> + /* Look up the base of DRAM from the device tree. */
> + fdt = (void *)fdt_addr;
> + node = fdt_subnode_offset(fdt, 0, "memory");
> + region = fdt_getprop(fdt, node, "reg", NULL);
> + if (region) {
> + dram_base = fdt64_to_cpu(region->base);
This will not work if the address is 32-bit size.
> + } else {
> + /* There is no way to get amount or addresses of physical
> + * memory installed using EFI calls. If the device tree
> + * we read from disk doesn't have this, there is no way
> + * for us to construct this informaion.
> + */
> + pr_efi_err(sys_table, "No 'memory' node in device tree.\n");
> + goto fail_free_fdt;
The current pc can't be used to determine the DRAM base like AUTO_ZRELADDR?
Rob
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