[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] Cleanup the comment for m68k linux boot argument passing.

Richard Retanubun RichardRetanubun at RuggedCom.com
Fri Feb 20 18:22:46 CET 2009


 From d1e6b372d1781f15f1042fa379562f85c873405a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Retanubun <RichardRetanubun at RuggedCom.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:06:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Cleanup the comment for m68k linux boot argument passing.
  The one gotcha here is that the assembly instruction that
  the compiler uses to jump to the kernel is 'jsr' which pushes the
  program counter for the instruction after the jsr into the stack pointer.

Signed-off-by: Richard Retanubun <RichardRetanubun at RuggedCom.com>
---
V2: Now with more verbose commit message :)

  lib_m68k/bootm.c |   11 ++++++-----
  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
  mode change 100644 => 100755 lib_m68k/bootm.c

diff --git a/lib_m68k/bootm.c b/lib_m68k/bootm.c
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 0798e07..958c5ce
--- a/lib_m68k/bootm.c
+++ b/lib_m68k/bootm.c
@@ -111,11 +111,12 @@ int do_bootm_linux(int flag, int argc, char *argv[], bootm_headers_t *images)

  	/*
  	 * Linux Kernel Parameters (passing board info data):
-	 *   r3: ptr to board info data
-	 *   r4: initrd_start or 0 if no initrd
-	 *   r5: initrd_end - unused if r4 is 0
-	 *   r6: Start of command line string
-	 *   r7: End   of command line string
+	 *   sp+00: Ignore, side effect of using jsr to jump to kernel
+	 *   sp+04: ptr to board info data
+	 *   sp+08: initrd_start or 0 if no initrd
+	 *   sp+12: initrd_end - unused if initrd_start is 0
+	 *   sp+16: Start of command line string
+	 *   sp+20: End   of command line string
  	 */
  	(*kernel) (kbd, initrd_start, initrd_end, cmd_start, cmd_end);
  	/* does not return */
-- 
1.5.6.5




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