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1U-Boot for arm64
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3Summary
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5No hardware platform of arm64 is available now. The U-Boot is
6simulated on Foundation Model and Fast Model for ARMv8.
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8Notes
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111. Currenly, U-Boot run at the highest exception level processor
12   supported and jump to EL2 or optionally EL1 before enter OS.
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142. U-Boot for arm64 is compiled with AArch64-gcc. AArch64-gcc
15   use rela relocation format, a tool(tools/relocate-rela) by Scott Wood
16   is used to encode the initial addend of rela to u-boot.bin. After running,
17   the U-Boot will be relocated to destination again.
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193. Fdt should be placed at a 2-megabyte boundary and within the first 512
20   megabytes from the start of the kernel image. So, fdt_high should be
21   defined specially.
22   Please reference linux/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt for detail.
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244. Spin-table is used to wake up secondary processors. One location
25   (or per processor location) is defined to hold the kernel entry point
26   for secondary processors. It must be ensured that the location is
27   accessible and zero immediately after secondary processor
28   enter slave_cpu branch execution in start.S. The location address
29   is encoded in cpu node of DTS. Linux kernel store the entry point
30   of secondary processors to it and send event to wakeup secondary
31   processors.
32   Please reference linux/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt for detail.
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345. Generic board is supported.
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366. CONFIG_ARM64 instead of CONFIG_ARMV8 is used to distinguish aarch64 and
37   aarch32 specific codes.
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397. CONFIG_SYS_FULL_VA is used to enable 2-level page tables. For cores
40   supporting 64k pages it allows usage of full 48+ virtual/physical addresses
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42   Enabling this option requires the following ones to be defined:
43       - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_MAP - an array of 'struct mm_region' describing the
44         system memory map (start, length, attributes)
45       - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_MAP_SIZE - number of entries in CONFIG_SYS_MEM_MAP
46       - CONFIG_SYS_PTL1_ENTRIES - number of 1st level page table entries
47       - CONFIG_SYS_PTL2_ENTRIES - number of 1nd level page table entries
48         for the largest CONFIG_SYS_MEM_MAP entry
49       - CONFIG_COREID_MASK - the mask value used to get the core from the
50         MPIDR_EL1 register
51       - CONFIG_SYS_PTL2_BITS - number of bits addressed by the 2nd level
52         page tables
53       - CONFIG_SYS_BLOCK_SHIFT - number of bits addressed by a single block
54         entry from L2 page tables
55       - CONFIG_SYS_PGTABLE_SIZE - total size of the page table
56       - CONFIG_SYS_TCR_EL{1,2,3}_IPS_BITS - the IPS field of the TCR_EL{1,2,3}
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61Contributor
62===========
63   Tom Rini            <trini@ti.com>
64   Scott Wood          <scottwood@freescale.com>
65   York Sun            <yorksun@freescale.com>
66   Simon Glass         <sjg@chromium.org>
67   Sharma Bhupesh      <bhupesh.sharma@freescale.com>
68   Rob Herring         <robherring2@gmail.com>
69   Sergey Temerkhanov  <s.temerkhanov@gmail.com>
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