[PATCH u-boot-mvebu] tools: kwboot: Document information about NOR XIP

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Thu Mar 23 21:00:07 CET 2023


Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
---
 tools/kwboot.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/kwboot.c b/tools/kwboot.c
index 2b92966919da..db917708a8e8 100644
--- a/tools/kwboot.c
+++ b/tools/kwboot.c
@@ -61,7 +61,9 @@
  *   SPI-NOR or parallel-NOR. Despite the type name it really can be stored on
  *   parallel-NOR and cannot be stored on other SPI devices, like SPI-NAND.
  *   So it should have been named NOR image, not SPI image. This image type
- *   supports XIP - Execute In Place directly from NOR memory.
+ *   supports XIP - Execute In Place directly from NOR memory. Destination
+ *   address of the XIP image is set to 0xFFFFFFFF and execute address to the
+ *   absolute offset in bytes from the beginning of NOR memory.
  *
  * - IBR_HDR_NAND_ID (0x8B):
  *   NAND image can be stored either at any 2 MB aligned offset in the first
-- 
2.20.1



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