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Documentation/arm64: clarify requirements for DTB placement 

The current description of DTB placement requirements does not quite
match the kernel code in head.S: __vet_fdt and __create_page_tables.
This patch tweaks the text to match the actual requirements placed on
it by the code.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Mark Salter 2013-09-04 15:10:02 +01:00 committed by Catalin Marinas
parent d50240a5f6
commit 4d5e0b1527
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Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
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@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ sees fit.)
Requirement: MANDATORY
The device tree blob (dtb) must be no bigger than 2 megabytes in size
and placed at a 2-megabyte boundary within the first 512 megabytes from
the start of the kernel image. This is to allow the kernel to map the
The device tree blob (dtb) must be placed on an 8-byte boundary within
the first 512 megabytes from the start of the kernel image and must not
cross a 2-megabyte boundary. This is to allow the kernel to map the
blob using a single section mapping in the initial page tables.