[U-Boot] Adding a new board to U-Boot

Bedia, Vaibhav vaibhav.bedia at ti.com
Mon Dec 20 17:17:54 CET 2010


On Monday, December 20, 2010 8:39 PM, Robert Mortimer wrote:
> First off I aplogise for top posting. It is common on some of the
> groups I am in You will be glad to know I have registerd our board
> with the ARM registry I have updated my local git repo to reflect the
> number we were given. None of the porting guides I found round the
> internet seemed to include this step   
> 
> Please could you confirm my understanding that the unique reference
> is passed to the loading Linux kernel to allow it to configure it's
> self for the target hardware.  
> 

The mach-type number has to be passed by the bootloader to the kernel via the
register r1 in case of ARM based processors atleast.

You can refer to http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/booting.php
and http://www.linux-arm.org/LinuxKernel/LinuxNewPlatformPort for more on this.

Regards,
Vaibhav


More information about the U-Boot mailing list