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authorSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-10-10 08:21:56 -0600
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2014-10-28 20:43:58 -0600
commit76539383ea0288985dc6216a92e3d7961df958b3 (patch)
tree20972aa414b45af84a56fcc4d7ec3965df57d705 /arch/x86/include
parent200182a748afd430da97b707dc5dff53c3147b5f (diff)
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x86: Move kernel boot function to arch/x86/lib/bootm.c
The boot_zimage() function is badly named it can also boot a raw kernel. Rename it, and try to avoid pointers for memory addresses as it involves lots of casting. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h16
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/zimage.h4
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h
index 033ab79516..f6a64ce2c9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootm.h
@@ -9,4 +9,20 @@
void bootm_announce_and_cleanup(void);
+/**
+ * boot_linux_kernel() - boot a linux kernel
+ *
+ * This boots a kernel image, either 32-bit or 64-bit. It will also work with
+ * a self-extracting kernel, if you set @image_64bit to false.
+ *
+ * @setup_base: Pointer to the setup.bin information for the kernel
+ * @load_address: Pointer to the start of the kernel image
+ * @image_64bit: true if the image is a raw 64-bit kernel, false if it
+ * is raw 32-bit or any type of self-extracting kernel
+ * such as a bzImage.
+ * @return -ve error code. This function does not return if the kernel was
+ * booted successfully.
+ */
+int boot_linux_kernel(ulong setup_base, ulong load_address, bool image_64bit);
+
#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/zimage.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/zimage.h
index 0f36662688..8e7dd424ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/zimage.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/zimage.h
@@ -35,10 +35,8 @@
unsigned install_e820_map(unsigned max_entries, struct e820entry *);
struct boot_params *load_zimage(char *image, unsigned long kernel_size,
- void **load_address);
+ ulong *load_addressp);
int setup_zimage(struct boot_params *setup_base, char *cmd_line, int auto_boot,
unsigned long initrd_addr, unsigned long initrd_size);
-void boot_zimage(void *setup_base, void *load_address);
-
#endif
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