From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
To: Lee HongWoo <hongwoo7@gmail•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Question about linux boot procedure (head_64.S)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:19:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9DC826.3010605@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e2889710909011725t275dcdc8oa8be58b6e32e51f4@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/01/2009 05:25 PM, Lee HongWoo wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>wrote:
>> In the general case, __start is the entry point of the kernel.
>> It is where the bootloader or boot wrapper program jumps to
>> when it transfers control to the kernel.
>
> I believe __start is the entry point of the kernel in this case.
> And the entry point is __GLOBAL(__start) in the head_64.S.
>
> What I asked is where or what __start is called in the prom_init.c
> __start(hdr, KERNELBASE + offset, 0);
I think Michael answered this. Just FYI, more info about the powerpc
boot is in the kernel source file:
Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-02 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-01 10:58 Question about linux boot procedure (head_64.S) Lee HongWoo
2009-09-01 17:32 ` Geoff Levand
2009-09-02 0:25 ` Lee HongWoo
2009-09-02 1:19 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2009-09-02 0:47 ` Michael Ellerman
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2009-09-01 11:27 Lee HongWoo
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