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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/Booting | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/zboot-rom-sdhi.txt | 42 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 2 |
6 files changed, 70 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Booting b/Documentation/arm/Booting index 4e686a2ed91..a341d87d276 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Booting +++ b/Documentation/arm/Booting @@ -164,3 +164,8 @@ In either case, the following conditions must be met: - The boot loader is expected to call the kernel image by jumping directly to the first instruction of the kernel image. + On CPUs supporting the ARM instruction set, the entry must be + made in ARM state, even for a Thumb-2 kernel. + + On CPUs supporting only the Thumb instruction set such as + Cortex-M class CPUs, the entry must be made in Thumb state. diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/zboot-rom-sdhi.txt b/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/zboot-rom-sdhi.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..441959846e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm/SH-Mobile/zboot-rom-sdhi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +ROM-able zImage boot from eSD +----------------------------- + +An ROM-able zImage compiled with ZBOOT_ROM_SDHI may be written to eSD and +SuperH Mobile ARM will to boot directly from the SDHI hardware block. + +This is achieved by the mask ROM loading the first portion of the image into +MERAM and then jumping to it. This portion contains loader code which +copies the entire image to SDRAM and jumps to it. From there the zImage +boot code proceeds as normal, uncompressing the image into its final +location and then jumping to it. + +This code has been tested on an mackerel board using the developer 1A eSD +boot mode which is configured using the following jumper settings. + + 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 + x|x|x|x| |x|x| +S4 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- + | | | |x| | |x on + +The eSD card needs to be present in SDHI slot 1 (CN7). +As such S1 and S33 also need to be configured as per +the notes in arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-mackerel.c. + +A partial zImage must be written to physical partition #1 (boot) +of the eSD at sector 0 in vrl4 format. A utility vrl4 is supplied to +accomplish this. + +e.g. + vrl4 < zImage | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=17 + +A full copy of _the same_ zImage should be written to physical partition #1 +(boot) of the eSD at sector 0. This should _not_ be in vrl4 format. + + vrl4 < zImage | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=512 + +Note: The commands above assume that the physical partition has been +switched. No such facility currently exists in the Linux Kernel. + +Physical partitions are described in the eSD specification. At the time of +writing they are not the same as partitions that are typically configured +using fdisk and visible through /proc/partitions diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1c044eb320c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +* ARM Performance Monitor Units + +ARM cores often have a PMU for counting cpu and cache events like cache misses +and hits. The interface to the PMU is part of the ARM ARM. The ARM PMU +representation in the device tree should be done as under:- + +Required properties: + +- compatible : should be one of + "arm,cortex-a9-pmu" + "arm,cortex-a8-pmu" + "arm,arm1176-pmu" + "arm,arm1136-pmu" +- interrupts : 1 combined interrupt or 1 per core. + +Example: + +pmu { + compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-pmu"; + interrupts = <100 101>; +}; diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt index d5c0cef38a7..873a2ab2e9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt @@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ Features which NILFS2 does not support yet: - POSIX ACLs - quotas - fsck - - resize - defragmentation Mount options diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index d3d653a5f9b..bfe924217f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. See tcp_retries2 for more details. - The default value is 7. + The default value is 8. If your machine is a loaded WEB server, you should think about lowering this value, such sockets may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index 9b7221a86df..7c3a8801b7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt @@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ Protocol: 2.10+ Field name: init_size Type: read -Offset/size: 0x25c/4 +Offset/size: 0x260/4 This field indicates the amount of linear contiguous memory starting at the kernel runtime start address that the kernel needs before it |