Please make K2 Linux bootable without PeeMON again

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:01:49PM -0800, Michael Sokolov wrote:

> ChangeSet at 1.666, 2001-11-19 09:10:26-07:00, trini at bill-the-cat.bloom.county
>   Remove register magic from platforms which use 'simple'.  A few
>   new platforms forgot parse_bootinfo(find_bootinfo()) as well.
>
>   arch/ppc/platforms/k2_setup.c
>     1.17 01/11/19 09:10:26 trini at bill-the-cat.bloom.county +0 -15
>     Remove cmd_line and initrd register magic.
>
> is a problem for me. On the K2 I do not use zImage or the braindead PeeMON
> firmware that it assumes, instead I load vmlinux directly by occult. I need to
> continue to able to do this, and I need to keep the interface to vmlinux
> register-based so that I can load vmlinux into memory by occult, put the right
> values in the right registers, and jump to it. A pointer to bi_recs in a
> register is fine, but looking for bi_recs in the magic location isn't. (The
> kernel has already been loaded into memory by occult when I get to it, and
> without the original ELF header or System.map I cannot determine where will it
> look for bi_recs in find_bootinfo.)

Er, why can't you find the magic location for the bi_recs and set that
as well as the other registers you need to?

> The patch below makes the K2 vmlinux expect a pointer to bi_recs in R3 like I
> do on the Adirondack and makes the "simple" zImage goo pass a pointer to its
> magic bi_recs in R3.

And breaks all of the other ports which use 'simple' and expect bi_recs
in the 'normal' place.  For now I'd much rather add back in the register
checks.  For 2.5 we can agree on a less magical and more predictable
location.  Would somewhere around the end of memory work for you?

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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