[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Boot-related documentation update

Bartlomiej Sieka tur at semihalf.com
Mon Apr 14 15:44:16 CEST 2008


- document 'bootm_low' and 'bootm_size' environment variables
- update inaccurate CFG_BOOTMAPSZ entry

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Sieka <tur at semihalf.com>
---
Addressed comment by Kumar, changed patch description accordingly.

 README |   21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5d059e7..63b1417 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1994,8 +1994,11 @@ Configuration Settings:
 - CFG_BOOTMAPSZ:
 		Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
 		the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
-		the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, eventually
-		initrd image) must be put below this limit.
+		the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
+		used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
+		enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
+		all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
+		and "bootm_low" + CFG_BOOTMAPSZ.
 
 - CFG_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
 		Max number of Flash memory banks
@@ -2733,6 +2736,20 @@ Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables:
 
   bootfile	- Name of the image to load with TFTP
 
+  bootm_low	- Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
+		  command can be restricted. This variable is given as
+		  a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
+		  for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
+		  environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
+		  also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
+		  kernel -- see the descripton of CFG_BOOTMAPSZ.
+
+  bootm_size	- Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
+		  command can be restricted. This variable is given as
+		  a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
+		  allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
+		  environment variable.
+
   autoload	- if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
 		  "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
 		  configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to





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