1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 =======================
4 Booting Linux/LoongArch
5 =======================
7 :Author: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
10 Information passed from BootLoader to kernel
11 ============================================
13 LoongArch supports ACPI and FDT. The information that needs to be passed
14 to the kernel includes the memmap, the initrd, the command line, optionally
15 the ACPI/FDT tables, and so on.
17 The kernel is passed the following arguments on `kernel_entry` :
19 - a0 = efi_boot: `efi_boot` is a flag indicating whether
20 this boot environment is fully UEFI-compliant.
22 - a1 = cmdline: `cmdline` is a pointer to the kernel command line.
24 - a2 = systemtable: `systemtable` points to the EFI system table.
25 All pointers involved at this stage are in physical addresses.
27 Header of Linux/LoongArch kernel images
28 =======================================
30 Linux/LoongArch kernel images are EFI images. Being PE files, they have
31 a 64-byte header structured like::
33 u32 MZ_MAGIC /* "MZ", MS-DOS header */
34 u32 res0 = 0 /* Reserved */
35 u64 kernel_entry /* Kernel entry point */
36 u64 _end - _text /* Kernel image effective size */
37 u64 load_offset /* Kernel image load offset from start of RAM */
38 u64 res1 = 0 /* Reserved */
39 u64 res2 = 0 /* Reserved */
40 u64 res3 = 0 /* Reserved */
41 u32 LINUX_PE_MAGIC /* Magic number */
42 u32 pe_header - _head /* Offset to the PE header */