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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 18:49:45 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 18:49:45 +0000 |
commit | 2c3c1048746a4622d8c89a29670120dc8fab93c4 (patch) | |
tree | 848558de17fb3008cdf4d861b01ac7781903ce39 /Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/coreboot.txt | |
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Adding upstream version 6.1.76.upstream/6.1.76upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/coreboot.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/coreboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4c955703c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/coreboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +COREBOOT firmware information + +The device tree node to communicate the location of coreboot's memory-resident +bookkeeping structures to the kernel. Since coreboot itself cannot boot a +device-tree-based kernel (yet), this node needs to be inserted by a +second-stage bootloader (a coreboot "payload"). + +Required properties: + - compatible: Should be "coreboot" + - reg: Address and length of the following two memory regions, in order: + 1.) The coreboot table. This is a list of variable-sized descriptors + that contain various compile- and run-time generated firmware + parameters. It is identified by the magic string "LBIO" in its first + four bytes. + See coreboot's src/commonlib/include/commonlib/coreboot_tables.h for + details. + 2.) The CBMEM area. This is a downward-growing memory region used by + coreboot to dynamically allocate data structures that remain resident. + It may or may not include the coreboot table as one of its members. It + is identified by a root node descriptor with the magic number + 0xc0389481 that resides in the topmost 8 bytes of the area. + See coreboot's src/include/imd.h for details. + +Example: + firmware { + ranges; + + coreboot { + compatible = "coreboot"; + reg = <0xfdfea000 0x264>, + <0xfdfea000 0x16000>; + } + }; |