| Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:56:15 -0700 | From | Tony Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 02/31] arm64: Kernel booting and initialisation |
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* Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [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 <tony@atomide.com>
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