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| author | Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> | 2013-11-28 18:24:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> | 2014-07-11 04:57:30 -0700 |
| commit | 63f8344cb4917e5219d07cfd6fcd50860bcf5360 (patch) | |
| tree | 5815d777e0d62ca21548caef7ff9452ab5c98103 /Documentation/arm64 | |
| parent | 96f68023bfb359a508e7e106eae5e3904669a999 (diff) | |
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arm64: boot protocol documentation update for GICv3
Linux has some requirements that must be satisfied in order to boot
on a system built with a GICv3.
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt index 37fc4f632176..da1d4bf32ac2 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt @@ -141,6 +141,14 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met: the kernel image will be entered must be initialised by software at a higher exception level to prevent execution in an UNKNOWN state. + For systems with a GICv3 interrupt controller: + - If EL3 is present: + ICC_SRE_EL3.Enable (bit 3) must be initialiased to 0b1. + ICC_SRE_EL3.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. + - If the kernel is entered at EL1: + ICC.SRE_EL2.Enable (bit 3) must be initialised to 0b1 + ICC_SRE_EL2.SRE (bit 0) must be initialised to 0b1. + The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs. All CPUs must enter the kernel in the same exception level. |