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Costa Shulyupin 51712e49b4 docs: move loongarch under arch
and fix all in-tree references.

Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/
as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making
the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717192456.453124-1-costa.shul@redhat.com
2023-08-18 11:03:52 -06:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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Booting Linux/LoongArch
=======================
:Author: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
:Date: 18 Nov 2022
Information passed from BootLoader to kernel
============================================
LoongArch supports ACPI and FDT. The information that needs to be passed
to the kernel includes the memmap, the initrd, the command line, optionally
the ACPI/FDT tables, and so on.
The kernel is passed the following arguments on `kernel_entry` :
- a0 = efi_boot: `efi_boot` is a flag indicating whether
this boot environment is fully UEFI-compliant.
- a1 = cmdline: `cmdline` is a pointer to the kernel command line.
- a2 = systemtable: `systemtable` points to the EFI system table.
All pointers involved at this stage are in physical addresses.
Header of Linux/LoongArch kernel images
=======================================
Linux/LoongArch kernel images are EFI images. Being PE files, they have
a 64-byte header structured like::
u32 MZ_MAGIC /* "MZ", MS-DOS header */
u32 res0 = 0 /* Reserved */
u64 kernel_entry /* Kernel entry point */
u64 _end - _text /* Kernel image effective size */
u64 load_offset /* Kernel image load offset from start of RAM */
u64 res1 = 0 /* Reserved */
u64 res2 = 0 /* Reserved */
u64 res3 = 0 /* Reserved */
u32 LINUX_PE_MAGIC /* Magic number */
u32 pe_header - _head /* Offset to the PE header */